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...rescuers-five in all-landed in a B-17 and gliders near the marooned party, and failed to get off the ice again, the men welcomed them to the gang. On the 19th day, when Colonel Beaudry landed his ski-equipped C-47, the boys smilingly showed him the bunk they had prepared for his stay. But in 38 minutes they were aboard and sweating out the jet-assisted takeoff. "We faced into the wind, counted noses, checked the engines and took off," said Co-Pilot Blackwell...
...English teacher, Bunk...
Teacher Roy Fisher, 22, just out of the University of South Carolina, was like no teacher Bunk had ever heard of. In his green corduroy jacket, Mr. Fisher could pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...
...Bunk and his schoolmates-girls in print dresses and boys in checkered shirts and blue jeans-began to read some of Mr. Fisher's books. And Bunk had to admit that literature wasn't at all bad-"the way Mr. Fisher teaches...
...last year, Bunk wrote a letter about Roy Fisher for a contest sponsored by the Quiz Kids to pick "The Best Teacher of 1947." When the judges picked Mr. Fisher for only a third prize ($500), Bunk was hopping mad. This year he put up an argument with another letter: "I don't think Mr. Fisher is second to any teacher. I think he's the best. I feel pounds lighter when I enter his door." Last week, a Quiz-Kid committee of college professors admitted that Bunk was right by naming Roy Fisher "The Best Teacher...