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...even his wife knew. He had gone to public school, served in World War II and was a successful businessman. But at 33 he still could not read. At last he sought help from New York University's Reading Clinic. Last week he was deep in a first-grade reader, and had just experienced one of life's biggest thrills-figuring out the sign on the subway train: "Please keep hands off door...
...illiterate businessman is an extreme case, but not a unique one. Dr. Stella Center, 69, who helped found the clinic ten years ago and now directs it, says sadly: "We are a nation of sixth-grade reading skill." She thinks a high-school graduate should read from 350 to 400 words a minute, understand at least 85% of what he reads. But most Americans who can read at all can read only 150 to 250 words a minute. Some 300 colleges have had to start reading classes for freshmen. Even many college graduates do not know how to read rapidly...
Negroes have been elected (and admitted) to Congress, but never to its press galleries. Some technicality or other in the admission rules always kept them out. Last week a Negro journalist finally made the grade. By unanimous vote of its governing committee, the periodical press gallery admitted Percival L. Prattis, Washington correspondent of Our World,, a Negro monthly magazine published in Manhattan...
...Atlanta, state legislators learned that an old law required locomotives to go toooooooot-toooooooot toot-toot when approaching Georgia grade crossings, brought it up to date and in conformity with the laws of adjoining states by authorizing toooooooot toooooooot toot-toooooooot...
Although he was described as being "very happy that there are more high-grade dance schools coming into the business," Arthur Murray-whose 80-some schools now gross $22,000,000 yearly-cut his rates from 10 to 20% at week's end, to "celebrate," said he, "our 33rd anniversary...