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Registration for the Spring Term will take place on Monday, February 7. A through M will sign up from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon, and the rest of the alphabet from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Joint registration will continue until...
...chief innovation is a television baby sitter called Du Mont Kindergarten at 8:30 a.m. This features a young woman named Pat Meikle, who tries to keep small fry pinned to their chairs with 30 minutes of fairy tales, alphabet instruction and handicrafts. The idea is to let mothers get on with their housework. Response has been so favorable that the program may be expanded to an hour...
...which he proves, if nothing else, that he can still write the liveliest prose of any man alive. He takes the reader on a joy ride, part serious and part clowning, rambling about the evils of Darwinism, the horrors of English grammar and the need-for a new alphabet...
Shaw's solution is the reform of the language and the creation of a new alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...
Died. Sidney Preston Osborn, 64, ninth governor of Arizona; of progressive muscular paralysis† in Phoenix. Unable to speak or write towards the end, Osborn insisted on being carried to his office, where he "dictated" by pointing at an alphabet, registered opinion by nodding...