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...parent of a feeble-minded child, I feel that euthanasia [TIME, June 30] should be extended legally to cover feeble-minded and hopelessly malformed children. . . . The cretins and mongoloids should not be burdened with life...
...fond parent, he is making a place for his two sons. When John Dabney, 25, who finished Yale last month, showed interest in publishing, Murchison bought into Henry Holt, made John Dabney a director. For John Dabney and Clint Jr., 23, who graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September, Murchison also bought two insurance companies...
Lost in a Spelling Bee. Not everybody joined in the fun. Among those who didn't were parents who discovered that fourth-graders could not hold their own in a spelling bee. Miss Seeds's frame schoolhouse became more of an embattled blockhouse than an ivory tower. One parent complained that her child could not even read her grandma's handwriting. "Who can?" retorted Miss Seeds...
...years ago an irate parent got elected to the Los Angeles school board and soon persuaded the board to oust Miss Seeds from her city-owned buildings. But other parents rallied to Miss Seeds's support. When left-wingers gave Miss Seeds some unsought backing, she found herself before California's Legislative Committee on un-American Activities. Chairman Jack Tenney asked her to explain her classroom approach to Russia. Miss Seeds said that her pupils studied Russian costumes, homes and farming. "You mean collective farming?" asked Chairman Tenney. Replied Miss Seeds: "That's all they have...
Life with Olla. Papa Eskelund's real affairs are told in this book, prised out of him by his son Karl, with the help of some good stiff drinks of a Guatemalan liquor called olla. As the story of a wayward parent, My Danish Father is a lineal descendant of the family-chronicle light biography (Papa Was a Preacher; Mother Wore Tights). Son Karl, a lanky, amiable onetime United Press correspondent in China, made the best-seller lists 18 months ago with a variation on the theme called My Chinese Wife. In My Danish Father, he has mixed...