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First Grade. Last winter Carolyn went back to the beginning. Her family got her a special teacher. Carolyn learned the alphabet again, then learned to count up to 31 by reading the calendar. After two weeks her teacher jumped her to second grade. A few weeks later, in fourth grade, Carolyn wrote: "I like to sew. I like to go uptown. I want to go to the Bonclarken Conference [of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church]. I like to ride a bicycle." By the beginning of summer, Carolyn had sailed successfully through eight grades...
...financial prophet. At a time when even F.D.R. was talking about a balanced budget, Eccles, a successful banker and a Republican, dumfounded his colleagues by proposing that the U.S. "spend" its way out of depression. Before a Senate committee in 1933, he described the need for many of the alphabet agencies which later came into being. But Eccles never considered himself a New Dealer; he thought in fiscal, not social, terms...
...Near the Bolan Pass, the expedition, came across its first big find: 36 sites which yielded pottery of a hitherto unknown type. On the bottom of many of the pieces were mysterious little signs, some 30 different ones, that look as if they might be the beginnings of an alphabet. Some of the sites, Fairservis believes, go back as far as 5000 B.C. Near Kandahar the party discovered pottery goddesses with the outsized breasts that many primitive peoples worshiped as symbols of fertility...
...Noodle. In his effort to avoid World War III, the President added a new noodle to the federal alphabet soup: MSP. The letters stand for Mutual Security Program, which will combine in one three-letter bundle all U.S. foreign aid, including EGA, MDAP and Point Four...
Sophomores in the first half of the alphabet may pick up their papers today through Friday at the Warren House theme room. The rest of '53 can get their papers on Monday and Tuesday. Juniors can get their themes May 31 through June 1, and June 4 through June...