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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kans. . . . After he was assigned [as official U.S. hangman in postwar Germany], he was afraid his wife might worry about his safety. As a result, he listed his address as San Antonio in the hope that . . . she would not identify him as an executioner. [And] Mrs. Woods did not learn of her husband's activities until after the hangings at Nürnberg prison...
George neglected to say what France's young painters would eventually learn from Gruber. Most of them are still experimenting with Picasso's big, free, arbitrarily distorted forms and Matisse's arbitrarily souped-up colors. They were not yet inclined, apparently, to follow Gruber's grimmer, narrower path...
...yachtsmen, a youngster old enough to sit still is old enough to learn to sail. On Long Island Sound, cruising ground of thousands of summer sailors, a boy or girl of ten is old enough to race his own boat in "midget" class (under 15 years) events. Last week the best of the midgets raced for the championship of the Sound, and the silver-crusted Scovill Cup which is emblematic...
...them in one of three degrees. Those in the first degree are taught no Communism; they are sincere nationalists who would be angry if they knew the truth. Those in the second degree are considered promising enough to be given general Communist indoctrination. Those in the third degree learn that world revolution under the total leadership of Russia is their goal...
...school any more"); 2) consideration for the individual ("She doesn't make a monkey out of you before everybody"); 3) patience ("She never gives up until you are able to do it"); 4) wide interests ("She brings in outside ideas and helps us to apply what we learn in our everyday lives"); 5) good manners ("There was something about his voice and his smile that made me feel good clear down to my stomach"); 6) fairness ("She gives you exactly what you deserve"); 7) sense of humor ("She puts some fun into each day so school does not seem...