Word: snowstorms
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Learning by radio was mostly Superintendent Charles E. Greene's doing. He had fretted while a September polio siege ate up 13 precious school days, grown impatient when a 40-inch snowstorm knocked out two more in November. John L. Lewis looked like one affliction too many. Last week, forced by the coal shortage to shut down the schools a third time, Greene handed out homework and organized a school-of-the-air. Said he: "You can't skip a month or two in education and make it up. We are now seeing to it that school goes...
From the cloud's upper surface great pustules of vapor arose. Out of its base poured streamers of snow. They evaporated before they could reach the ground, but Schaefer flew back to Schenectady in triumph. He had touched off the first man-made snowstorm...
...puttering around in the darkroom of a photographic studio, he learned the art of trick photography so well that in ater years he was able to produce better snowstorm photos than his rivals, simply by splattering ink on his negatives. He also did early composites, during a macabre era in which people liked to be photographed with shadowy pictures of their deceased spouses showing in the background. He tried to make money printing photographs on satin pillowcases (a fad of the times), went $1,500 in debt with his own studio, then joined...
...driving snowstorm this week several hundred blue-clad, brass-buttoned students gathered in the ruins of Meiji University to hold an anti-Communist rally. They had been summoned by the "League of Former Cheer Leaders of the Six Major Universities in Tokyo." Two bored, white-helmeted American MPs watched the proceedings for a minute and sniffed: "Them Commies is at it again...
Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco almost ran down her newest romance (according to the gossip columnists) when Maestro Leopold Stokowski stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working...