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Messing with Creation. Mercer's teachers are free to use the movies any way they see fit; the fifth grade's Mrs. Blanche Brack says film producers have been "horrified" at the way teachers have been "messing about with their creation." She prefers to show fragments of many films, repeatedly stopping the action to quiz the kids on what they just saw, what they expect next. She had her pupils draw up their own narration to a filmstrip on the "Causes of the Revolution" to replace the high-school level commentary that came with it. Her fifth-grade...
...FRED BRACK...
teen-ager playing for Har-Brack high school in Brackenridge, Pa. "Guys would shake hands with me, and there would be bills in their palms," he remembers-and sometimes the take ran to $150 a week. The N.F.L.'s Cleveland Browns signed him at 18, shipped him off to Canada for seasoning. Cookie liked it so well he decided to stay. By 1962, when he quit and shuffled off to Buffalo, Cookie was the No. 1 back in Canadian football and a $20,000-a-year man with the Toronto Argonauts...
...characters in violent and generally entertaining motion. (The characters are named Bimbo and Bunny and Cuckoo and Buddha, as they always are in British light fiction. No one knows why, just as no one knows why characters in U.S. ladies' fiction are all named Brett and Brick and Brack and Blade.) The tizzies in which the islanders become involved may be trivial-can anyone really fret about the problems of a cuckolded duke if he is called Droopy?-but they are enjoyed by all hands, including the author...
Last week, in view of the hisses, hanged effigy and burning cross, Lee once again seemed a politician without a future. But then, Brack Lee had proved before that the man with the black-ink figures can often have the last word...