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Have Another. In Port Washington, N.Y., a first-grade teacher, despairing of teaching her youngest pupil to read numbers, enlisted the aid of the boy's father. The father wrote "3" on the blackboard. "Three," said the son. The father wrote "5." "Five," said the son. The father wrote "8.""Pretzel," said...
Engaged. James Joseph Patterson, 21, West Point cadet, only son of New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; and Dorothy Marie Clarke, 21, of Ossining, N.Y., his onetime grade-school flame; in Ossining...
...Boss always concluded his matutinal remarks somewhat as follows: "I should like to see the following in the corridor, immediately after prayers. . . ." On the particular day of Freyberg's visit, I was among The Boss's honored guests on account of a certain amount of low-grade gunpowder, made in the College lab, having been ignited at a most strategic moment under a line of old-fashioned outhouses...
...brash Joseph Coughlin, 49, 204 lb., got to be a small-talk columnist a few years before Walter Winchell. At 24, Roundy was pushing a lawnmower in Madison's Brittingham Park (he had quit school in the fifth grade, had been a dynamite hauler, telephone repairer, sledge-hammerer, semi-pro baseball pitcher). He started penciling names and items he heard around the park's tennis courts and bathing beach, sold them as a weekly sports column to the Capital Times. The technique and Roundy's idiom have not changed a bit in 25 years. The State Journal...
...advantages of Avon Old Farms, many parents were willing to pay tuition of $1,450 a year. But the school was repeatedly harassed by conflicts between its high-grade faculties and its formidable founder. In 17 years two provosts ( Avonian for headmaster), to one of whom she had been led by consulting a classified telephone directory, quit after rows. Once the bulk of the faculty followed progressive Provost Francis Mitchell Froelicher to Colorado's Fountain Valley School. Last week Provost W. Brooke Stabler, an Episcopal cleric who formerly preached and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to take...