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...Jacques, who pretend to be burglars tirelessly dividing loot à moi; à toi, à toi, à lui, until even a Kansas City house dick would get the idea. Hachette teaches the future tense in a setting where any other tense would be out of place: a fortuneteller's booth. To help learners catch elusive French intonation, Hachette uses another gimmick in the lesson on the interrogative: a violin trilling up to accent Dawn Addams' voice...
...stop there? Why not produce an historical dramatization with a similar format? Then we could all hear John Wilkes Booth talk on Lincoln, Adolf Hitler talk on Churchill, and Al Capone talk on Ness...
...ministry is fine therapy for some neurotics, argued New York Psychiatrist Gotthard Booth, who has been administering psychological tests to ministerial candidates for 24 years. Since the fulfillment of the deep need that impelled them to seek the ministry often has a balancing effect on mentally disturbed ministers, said Dr. Booth, many churchmen find in clerical garb "an ambulatory sanitarium." But a good minister, said Dr. Brown, may operate successfully while driving his wife "to the brink of psychosis and his children into neurotic reactions." Concluded Booth reassuringly: "There is some evidence that serious 'nervous breakdowns' occur less...
...anybody can help make the U.S. Education Commissioner's Office into a real center of influence on America's schools, rather than the wayside information booth it always has been, it is President Kennedy's most recent Harvard appointment. Dean Keppel's creation of intern and team teaching, his guiding of a committee to find a school superintendent for New York (surely the most delicate and trying job to ask of any educator), and his 14-year-long supervision of the University's rapidly growing Graduate School of Education have shown it. He has a clear vision of what urban...
...Booth wreaked his revenge in 1931. The high-flying Crimson, sporting a 14-13 win over Army, went into the contest undefeated and untied. The teams seesawed back and forth and went into the fourth quarter tied, 0 to 0. Booth completed a pass deep in Crimson territory, and seconds later drop-kicked the ball between the uprights to give Yale a 3-0 victory...