Word: phoenixed
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...vocabulary of 30. His nursery school playmate, three-year-old Johnny Henry, now uses ten words; before he could only say one. This week Johnny, Gary and eight other small children, all of them deaf from birth, moved into their new nursery school, a five-room frame bungalow in Phoenix, Ariz. With them went one professional speech teacher and ten enthusiastic amateurs, the children's mothers...
...Phoenix clinic was organized last March by Mrs. Herman Thornton, a lively young brunette who has one deaf child herself. Ten sets of parents answered her invitation, but only one teacher, Mrs. Grace Covey, a motherly looking woman in her 50s who had come to Phoenix to rest and write poetry. It was a familiar problem in speech instruction: too many deaf children and not enough professional teachers to tutor them individually...
...Effingham, Ill. (pop. 8,000), they will never forget the fire that, one April night in 1949, burned St. Anthony's Hospital to the ground, and took 75 lives. "Last week they were reminded of the tragedy by a fact as hopeful as a phoenix...
Clean Getaway. In Phoenix, after William Pilling told police that he got off fairly easily when a burglar stole only $6 and a Stetson hat, he discovered that the thief had also taken a bath, left a ring around...
Cool Logic. In Phoenix, after crossing the burning Mojave desert in a car fitted with 50 Ibs. of ice and an air-conditioning unit, plus a block of dry ice on the floorboard, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Larnce pulled into a service station to find out what made the car so warm, learned that their heater...