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...town's young hooligans. The boy told him, "Yes, we're going to the devil all right. There's no place else to go." Evans promptly commandeered a hotel, rallied the town's boys with saws and hammers to convert it into "Evans' Gym." By the time he left, three years later, order was restored and his congregation had swelled from...
...protest, most of North College Hill's 565 high-school students went out on a three week strike. At a board meeting, 1,000 people crowded into the high-school gym, heard letters of resignation from 28 of North College Hill's 33 teachers. There were sobs in the audience...
Hackett, who knows that "a good school is a band of devoted, capable teachers," is offering prospective teachers a bonus: homes for their families in a new faculty apartment house on the school site. Architects' plans call for an ultramodern, glass-&-concrete schoolhouse, gym, auditorium and chapel. Right now the World School consists of one flagpole...
...morning, the people left in Texas City tried to count their dead. There were 200 bodies in the gym. They lay in blanketed rows, each body tagged with a yellow identification slip.* The smell of smoke and blood hung thick over relatives bending to look at the tags. Occasionally someone whimpered, or fainted, or turned woodenly and walked out. One young woman begged to be admitted out of turn to find her young husband. "We only been married a month," she explained. Another in slacks stepped challengingly up to a guard. "He ain't here," she snapped. Still another...
...three other stories one concerns a frustrated pianist, and another a frustrated man who just sits in a cafe. The remaining story, by Miss Miriam Ginsberg, it is a pleasure to report, is humorous, and despite the very mild nature of its wit, her account of a girl's gym class seems practically uproarious when compared with the morose material which surrounds...