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...trailer were stalled on a very steep grade in the Rushmore National Park. I had been stuck there all night and early in the morning there came bounding down the mountain two nattily dressed young men whom I later found to be employed on the memorial which is being carved on one of the lofty mountain peaks. One of them was the son of the sculptor himself* and he recognized our plight on the roadside and when he found out who we were he said, "Well, well, I have just been reading about you," and he picked from the seat...
...York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times, turning out the words for such tunes as Barney Google...
...jesting friend or a bold enemy would call him "Cajun," a term usually applied to semiliterate or illiterate poor folk of French descent.-ED. No Shorts Sirs: On Sept. 23, p. 13, you stated in your publication that Airs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "spent a morning at her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts." We assume that this report is based on information which originally appeared in the Citizen Patriot and later was carried on press...
...prepare. It embraced, he admitted, "radical changes'" de-signed to fit education to the individual pupil. Under Dr. Bayne's idyllic system, every pupil, smart or dull, would progress steadily through six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high. With him from grade to grade would go a complete case history. If his interests were unacademic, he would take cultural or practical courses. He would be stimulated rather than forced to work, would practically never fail of promotion...
...Dahlgren, botany curator of Chicago's Field Museum. Although the expedition had the earmarks of a happy combination of pleasure and publicity, Johnson's President Johnson announced that he would search for new growths of carnauba palm, whose leaves supply the basic substance of high-grade wax and polish...