Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams was momentarily startled when he arrived at Boysville school in Michigan for a Christmas party. A group of youths hurriedly lined up to greet him. They carried placards which were supposed to spell out H-E-L-L-O GOVERNOR. In the confusion one of the boys ran to the wrong place in line. The placards spelled out O-H-E-L-L GOVERNOR...
...spit-and-scratch school of society reporting in the nation's capital, two of the sharpest-clawed are Austine McDonnell Cassini Hearst of the Washington Times-Herald and Evelyn Peyton Gordon March of the Washington Daily News...
...sophisticated 40-y ear-old, E. Box had once gone to art school but her art training "never got beyond the point of sitting around a table with a lot of girls, giggling." She was married at 18 and kept busy thereafter with a baby, a nanny, a cook, a car, a house in London, a cottage in West Sussex, and, for diversion, an occasional visit to an art gallery. Until last year she had never touched a paintbrush in her life...
...youth, Price was always making things. He learned early "from a guy just out of the pen" to weave horsehair watch chains. He made a fiddle and played at dances ("I really could bow!"). He sketched constantly, finally got to art school at 31, attended both night & day classes and won a gold medal. His instructors, he remembers, were reluctant even to discuss such subjects as "that modern Whistler." He made a success illustrating Wild West magazine stories, gave it up some 30 years ago to experiment with the freewheeling painting he does now. To live while he learned...
Last week in East St. Louis, III. (pop. 75,000), Jim Crow lost another tattered feather. The school board ordered an end to the practice (also followed by many smaller towns in southern Illinois) of segregating Negro children in the public schools...