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...principal, a direct, distinguished-looking Negro woman named Margaret Douglas-politeness, cleanliness and the will to study are the vogue at P.S. 133. The school is so overcrowded that pupils attend in two shifts. But the children are sent to school in clean dresses, clean white shirts (and bow ties) and seem to be scrubbed daily within an inch of their lives. They work "like little angels." "In years to come," says Mrs. Douglas proudly, "these children are going to be something...
Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Sir Cedric Hardwicke in The Big Bow Mystery...
...boarder who tried to teach Augie principles of good behavior. But Augie tailed along with neighborhood hoodlums, stole pennies from newsstands, quarters from a shop where he briefly worked, ladies' handbags in a planned robbery. While older brother Simon, out to get rich, was learning to knot a bow tie and be charming to ladies, Augie was working the angles at some very odd jobs (coifing dogs, stealing books, smuggling immigrants over the Canadian border) and wondering what life was all about...
Murder in the Bow. In The Boat, it was every man for himself in one of the less altruistic episodes in the annals of the sea. Author Gibson's gory little memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged...
...night there was an unusual amount of screaming and shouting. In the morning 20 people were missing. Dully the survivors realized that five soldiers in the bow seats had formed a murder gang...