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...much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop. "If students raise Cain in algebra, they break tools and bore holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that quality of workmanship is of slight importance...
...time for the words "The End" to close in as the royal yacht bore the happy couple off to a honeymoon somewhere behind the setting sun. But for the bricklayer's daughter, Grace Patricia Kelly Grimaldi, and her Graustarkian Prince, it was, after all, less an end than, as in real life, only the beginning...
...Whitney's Head Man, with Eddie Arcaro up, trailed Winding Way Farm's Golf Ace the entire mile and a furlong distance in the $61,000 Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica, finished 2½ lengths back, but was awarded first place after films showed Golf Ace bore out and cut off Head Man in the stretch. After the race, Arcaro agreed to ride Head Man in the Kentucky Derby next week at Churchill Downs, where highly favored Needles and Career Boy are already working out. ¶ While World Champion Shotputter Parry O'Brien outtossed Newcomer Bill Nieder...
...rail-fan movement began right here in Boston during the depression when people deeply reconsidered established values. Automobiles had become a bore because as modern contraptions they were devoid of all nostalgia. Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc., the group which sponsored Sunday's trip, organized in 1933, and quickly established chapters in Hartford, New York, Portland, and Taunton, Mass. Pretty soon there were a million members all over the country--buying magazines (Sample want ad: "Pictures needed of cabooses seen from the side."), swapping photographs (Advertised Mr. G. A. Porter of Savannah, Ga.: "8 X 10 neg. of A-AWP supplement...
...ears and imagine that they were back in the good old days of 1948. Arriving in Des Moines for Iowa's Jackson Day dinner, that self-styled "political has-been," Harry Truman, grinned happily at the sight of a team of midget mules hitched to a cart that bore the sign "Welcome, Harry. Give 'Em Hell." Said he: "I never did give 'em hell. I just told them the truth and they couldn't stand...