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...Ankara under his heel, Ataturk toured country districts announcing that Islam "is a dead and finished thing." Returning suddenly after eight years' absence to "that cesspool" Istanbul, he summoned notables to a grand ball. Before the band played a note, Ataturk himself stepped, chalk in hand, to a blackboard and for four hours lectured the jaded heirs of the Ottomans on the new, latinized language he had ordained for the republic...
...BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, by Evan Hunter (309 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $3.50). Everybody talks about juvenile delinquency, but Evan Hunter, who used to teach at a New York City vocational high school, has done something about it. He has written a nightmarish but authentic first novel about the problem that should scare the curls off mothers' heads and drive the most carpet-slippered father to vigilant attendance at the P.T.A. On his first day at North Manual Trades, earnest young English Instructor Richard Dadier stops a 17-year-old from raping a new instructor on the stairs. Within two weeks seven...
...lake, the 5 ft. 2 in. swimmer fought against 6-ft. waves, with the distant Toronto skyline now tantalizingly in sight. Her coach scribbled words of encouragement on a blackboard. "You quit and fail all kids," he wrote once...
...much of the radio style about its dialogue, and not enough TV appeal. The few good visual touches that are used are ably exploited by Actor Cronyn. Example: visiting the local grade school on P.T.A. night, he first raises his eyebrows at a youngster's note on one blackboard-"Amy Hauser stinks"; a moment later he does a double-take at a second blackboard, which reads: "Amy Hauser stinks on ice"; finally he shrugs hopelessly when he discovers the secret truth of it all, on the underside of a desk top: "I love Amy Hauser...
...reach an equation on the top of the blackboard, or tutoring a troubled student long after hours, "Little Al" has become the most popular figure on cam pus - a gentle man who had a habit of quietly slipping his own money into scholarships for impoverished pupils and "who believes," as the 1914 yearbook puts it, "that there is good in every man and seeks to make that good predominate." Columbia's Talbot Hamlin, 65, ranking U.S. architectural historian, authority on early 19th century American architecture, editor of the monumental (four volumes, $80) Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture...