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...omitted to mention along with the fact that Hearst dragged his readers through depravity, jingoism, and sex murder, that he was the first to campaign for good roads, woman's suffrage, that through his mother he established the Parent-Teachers' Association, and that in the horse-&-buggy days this was yellow journalism. Today, it is accepted progress...
Historian Frank G. Menke is centuries out of the way when he claims (TIME, Feb. 27, p. 28) that "the U. S. game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed 'Johnny Crapaud' (French for toad). The pastime became known as 'Crapaud's Game,' then 'Crap's Game,' finally . . . craps...
...Supreme Court to have their 14-year-old son, Peter Salm, support him ($20,000 a year for himself, $10,000 a year for the expense of having his son visit, $35,000 for counsel fees). Reason: "It is the duty of a child possessing wealth to support a parent without funds...
...game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed "Johnny Crapaud'' (French for toad). The pastime became known as "Crapaud's Game," then "Crap's Game," finally-after it spread up the Mississippi and trickled throughout the country-craps...
...Contrasted with New York City children's disastrous ignorance was the attitude of youngsters in suburban Bronxville. There boys and girls are taught the facts of life in school. Asked a parent: "Don't you talk about all this outside of class?" Replied a pupil: "Yes, we do some, but there's not much to talk about. Everyone knows as much as everyone else...