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...noisy, prolonged hearings before the Board of Education, Miss Quinn's fellow teachers and several of her pupils testified that she had sneered at Italian-Americans as "greasy foreigners," had declared tolerance "bunk," and said that "democracy would never succeed in America." The principal charge: that Miss Quinn had written on the blackboard six sentences out of a Jew-baiting leaflet, The First Americans. These sentences overgenerously credited Irish-Americans with killing the first Jap, sinking the first battleship, carrying out the first FT raid, bagging the first Jap plane, capturing the first German spy, winning the first presidential...
...woman slaps her ne'er-do-well son-in-law, who loses his balance and falls out the window of his Maine boathouse. The fatality, as it proves to be, is witnessed by the young man's wife and by a little old man who is hidden in a bunk at stage-left. The death is clearly an accident, but the little old man--Kilbride, of course--insinuates, "Wa-al, you slapped him, and he fell, and now he's dead....Police sometimes nasty about things like that y'know...
Cleo, "her breasts strained, aggressively pointed and challenging," strode the schooner's deck. "The bunk's so comfortable and so roomy and all," cooed Cleo to Shamus one evening, "-but, well, Captain, it's sometimes so lonesome...
...told his colleagues that he had written a book giving his reasons for objecting.* After that, North Dakota's Republican Senator William Langer reared up to announce that the whole United Nations setup was a square peg in a round hole, a phony and a lot of bunk...
...Chicagoans: Trombonist Milfred ("Miff") Mole, Cornetist Francis Xavier ("Muggsy") Spanier, who play a half mile away, at Nick's in the Village-where Condon played until about two years ago. (Twelve blocks away, Manhattanites could hear the far more virile and exciting New Orleans Negro jazz of Cornetist Bunk Johnson-TIME, Nov. 5.) Some of Nick's parishioners were scattered among Condon's opening-night audience, lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth child of an Indiana saloonkeeper: "the Paramount-once-a-week, glass-top-bus crowd. They stick...