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...high schools, about one in ten of the teachers were laid low by flu. In at least five, classes hardly missed a recitation last week. The teachers' places had been taken by a posse of students. At Lincoln High the 17-year-old football captain taught English and gym. Pretty Stella Bymakos stepped to the head of English 10B, and a scholar muttered: "Why couldn't it have been this week instead of last that I had to stay after school...
Many of the wives have part-time jobs to add to their husbands' G.I. allowance of $75 a month (single men get $50). The college tries to keep them all entertained by letting them play squash in the men's gym, join in music, stage and handicraft groups. Next step: special classes for the wives...
...every morning at 7. (She has never missed a day.) She spends an hour cleaning up the mail. From 8 to 8:30 she advises students who have special problems. At 8:30 she conducts a singing class. At 9 she puts 60 to 90 boys & girls through a gym routine that often includes intricate steps from her rich repertory of folk dances. Then she teaches geometry, algebra, English, physics, chemistry and a variety of foreign languages until 3:30, when it is time to go home to clean house and start Fred's supper. Fred spends his days...
Four nights a week, in a barren, gym-like hall called Stuyvesant Casino on Manhattan's tawdry Lower East Side, Bunk and his six fellow jazzmen from New Orleans gave out with rocking hymns like When the Saints Go Marching In, drum-heavy parade music like High Society and Maryland, My Maryland, and the quick-paced I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate ("she shakes like jelly on a plate"). Their tunes were old; their playing was steady beat, banjo-plunking, authentic New Orleans-and meant to dance to. Bunk and his bandmen couldn't understand...
...Students are expected to sit up everywhere while sun-bathing except on the gym roofs and on the banks of Paradise. --Smith College Associate News...