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When school opened in Tucson, Ariz, this fall, Superintendent Robert D. Morrow had reason to feel uneasy. He had never wanted to be "either a heel or a hero," but heel or hero he was destined to be. Morrow had been trying to get rid of Jim Crow in the city's public schools for the past six months-ever since the state legislature passed a law leaving the decision up to local communities...
...meeting, ex-Navy Boxer Harry Bennett became Henry Ford's closest companion for the remainder of the automaker's life, closer even than Ford's only son, Edsel. He was actually running the Ford empire in 1945 when young Henry Ford II stepped in and got rid...
...Comers Met In his deadpan, wryly humorous column, Meeting All Comers, in the Houston Post, H. (for Hubert) Mewhinney has earned a reputation as the city's know-it-all. He advises readers on such diverse subjects as how to rid their chimneys of bats, how to tell a male cocklebur from a female cocklebur (a female has burs), and whether armadillos are good to eat (they are). No one catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more...
...physical burdens of the H.A.A. Judgment demands that despite whatever useful purposes certain items in the plant might have, the H.A.A. would do well to function without them, just for the sake of economy. But items like the Weld Boathouse, while expendable in a pinch, are tough to get rid...
...beautiful and exciting picture, then. But I cannot rid myself of a feeling that it is not a great picture by several Ganges-breadths. Why it misses greatness is difficult to say, but perhaps it lies in this: the force, the beauty of the novel lies in the deep contrast between the calm flow of Indian life outside and the turbulent rapids inside the adolescent girl. Without this contrast the background is superfluous, even distracting, and the girl's problems are deprived of a setting which gives them power. Renoir certainly does not miss this contrast...