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...grade school Sunny skipped second, fourth and sixth grades. But she had scarcely been graduated from high school as her class valedictorian when she married ("unfortunately, and you can say that") one Edwin Ettinger. Edwin was 28, Sunny 15. After five months-an alltime marital endurance record for Sunny-she left...
Adolph W. Samborski, Assistant Director of Intramural Athletics, has announced that the passing grade of the step test has been lowered from 75 to 65 per cent. Samborski added that this change in the passing mark would affect about 170 men whose grades were between these two figures. Those men will be notified of their present standing by mall...
Samborski announced, however, that all those who failed to achieve a grade of 65 or over, will take half an hour of special conditioning class four times a week until their deficiency has been made up. Over 400 incoming Freshmen took the test during the first week of the term...
...Economic status (upper fourth, 84%; lowest fourth, 53%) was even more indicative than education. Citizens with plenty of money but only grade-school education, voted 13% more heavily than those with a college diploma but low income...
...Radio's Grade Allen (North American Newspaper Alliance): "The Republicans have decided to try to solve the housing shortage in Albany by moving the Thomas E. Deweys to Washington. If they succeed, Mr. Roosevelt will have to move out of the White House. My goodness, wouldn't Eleanor be surprised to come home and find him gone...