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...Richardson listed her complaints: 1) the poll tax ("a breeder of dirty politicians"); 2) the schools ("my oldest son enters the fourth grade soon . . . in three years he has had very little actual knowledge offered him. [He] can barely write"); 3) the city employes ("what a sorry lot . . . barely a day goes by but what some policeman or two run down some poor defenseless Negro...
...Small Town King. Young (42) Mr. Ruskin, no violet for modesty, attributes his success to his sharp, morning-glory wits. He likes to remember that he graduated from eighth grade at the age of ten years and nine months, from high school at 14 ("I would have been a quiz kid"). He became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that...
...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...
...this adds up to a top-grade movie; it will be a long while before another one like it comes to the screen...
...began getting second-grade, left over and plain trash roles. She was done out of a long-promised chance to play Emily Brontë. She went to Broadway and enjoyed herself thoroughly in a play by Irwin Shaw (Sons and Soldiers). The fact that it flopped sent her Hollywood stock still lower...