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Leon Ormond, a teacher in the Arts High School of Newark, N. J., has two classes of children with I. Q.s of 80 or less. Their reading is poor, their spelling worse. But Teacher Ormond encouraged them to write verses. Last week he triumphantly reported that near-morons can write. To prove it he published uncorrected samples of their poetry in The Clearing House, an educational magazine. Sample...
...alcohol, go to the theatre. Since the choice of a mate requires the approval of their superiors, nearly all of them marry within the ranks, rear another generation of Salvationists. Mrs. Commissioner Damon was Captain Annie Barrow before her marriage. The Damons' daughter, Mrs. Adjutant Lyell Rader of Newark, is an active Army officer...
...past few weeks such plaints have been pouring into Newark's station WOR, addressed to a program called Here's Looking at You. Originated by Pegeen Fitzgerald, erstwhile fashion director in a Manhattan department store, and Richard Willis, onetime cinema makeup man, Here's Looking at You is broadcast twice weekly from New York's World's Fair, features a 15-minute beauty and fashion analysis of studio visitors depressed by their appearance...
Married. Virginia Cocalis, 24, and George McMillan, 25; in St. Nicholas' Church, Newark, N. J. Under the terms of Theatre Owner Soteros D. Cocalis' will, Daughter Virginia forfeited a $25,000 bequest by wedding a man not "born into the Greek Orthodox faith." Born a Baptist, McMillan joined the Greek church, but it was too late...
...circulation: 2,000) U. S. eyes peeled for the new and elsewhere unrecognized forms of excellence toward which it is receptive-though faintly proprietary. However, though Partisan Review editorially reflects a highly doctrinaire sense of the world, it rarely reflects a humane knowledge of the U. S. west of Newark, N. J. But its editors have the courage to take life hard, and sometimes even acknowledge that their convictions are not immutable. "There are more and more things in the world," says Editor Macdonald now, with disarming moderation, "that Marxism does not explain...