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...Anna swims through day after day in a sea of 70 children-white, Maori, and "the brown-white of the New Race"-who overflow her prefab schoolhouse. There are screams from little brown Ara: "Miss Vottot! Seven he's got a knife! He's cutteen my stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven he's trying to kill us all with the axe for nutteen...
...Harvard continental set has been heard murmuring about the marroniers soon to blossom in Paris, the sweet fragrance along the Seine and how the cafes along the Champs Elysees or the Kurfurstendam are putting up their awnings again. The lament of the Eliot House cognoscenti or the bread-cheese-and wine continental wanderers at the Bick for the douceur de vie is especially plaintive as Harvard thaws...
...From Flying Petty Officer First Class Isao Matsuo to his parents: "Please congratulate me. I have been given a splendid opportunity to die . . . I shall fall like a blossom from a radiant cherry tree . . . How I appreciate this chance to die like a man! . . . Thank you, my parents, for the 23 years during which you have cared for me and inspired me. I hope that my present deed will in some small way repay what you have done...
...blossom today, then scattered...
...were tired of being Governor Orval Faubus' whipping boys. He had used us to win or help win three elections. Our integration plan would have worked if it hadn't been for political interference." Out along with the rest of the board: School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Before quitting, the board voted over Alford's objection to dismiss Blossom, pay him $19,741.41 for the remaining 19 months of his contract. But by week's end the segregationist machinery had produced a taxpayer's suit charging collusion, postponed payment...