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...last year's 18 teachers, eleven did not come back. One grade-school teacher stayed, eight quit. Six high-school teachers stayed, three quit. The median teaching experience of the ten replacements is one and a quarter years (three and three quarters fewer than that of those who quit); the median age is 22 years...
Sinclair Lewis, on a debating tour with Author Lewis Browne (This Believing World), was interviewed in Spokane by a girl reporter, gave her an earful. Said he: "I went through the fifth grade and I think that is sufficient." When she soberly recorded this in the Spokesman-Review, Lewis (Yale A.B. '07, Litt.D. '36) stomped into the paper's city room to raise the roof. The girl reporter fled in tears as Lewis blatted: "My dear young child . . . you should have known . . . My God . . . I've been called nine kinds...
Lots of Smoke. In Virginia's famed Old Belt markets, tobacco companies are scrambling to buy all the leaf they can get. Although hobbled by price ceilings and individual War Food Administration quotas, they have sent prices flipping up like a snapped butt. Low-grade leaf, once worth only a cent a pound, now brings up to 30?. Second-growth "wisps," which growers once did not even bother to cart to market, now find ready buyers. Flue-cured tobacco, mainstay of the industry, is up to 40? a pound, almost double the 1933-41 average...
...stopped whistling in the dark room. The once-bust studio has two grade-B pictures, made on what Hollywood calls a shoestring, which are outgrossing nearly every A-picture in a boom year...
Just such studies are two twins, aged eight, who somehow never were able to read a word. Normally they should have been in the third grade, but they were referred to the clinic for study and possible instruction in reading...