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...York City's grade schools. She is a popular teacher, but her record is not unblemished. She has been absent from class 1,556 days, tardy 724 times. A big woman (5 ft. n, 275 lb.), she suffers from high blood pressure (see p. 72), walks with a cane...
...yarns concern some member who came in like a Lamb and went out like a light. There was, for example, the soused member who arrived at 3 a.m., just after the bartender had polished 300 glasses and stacked them on the bar. With a sweep of his cane, the drunk knocked all 300 off. He was suspended for six months, then returned at the same hour, in the same condition. "Why haven't you been around lately?" asked a friend. "I was suspended," answered the drunk, "for knocking glasses off the bar-like this," and off went 300 more...
...taught his famous course, English 2, one of his rules was that no student should cough in his classroom; another that no one could enter the room with his hat on. He invariably marched straight across Harvard Square, regardless of traffic, staying the onrushing trucks by flourishing his cane...
...river, far from the nearest village, stands a white-columned plantation house. Guarding the house are two gigantic oaks, shrouded in ghostly Spanish moss. The cottages behind the oaks might belong to sugarcane workers or tenant farmers. But the 367 men & women who live at Carville cut no cane, plough no field. They are lepers...
Wilhelm von HohenzoIIern, 21 years ago a beaten warlord and exiled Kaiser, today a grumpy old man on a cane, passed his 81st birthday last week quietly at Doom in The Netherlands. Nazi Germany took no official notice of the anniversary. Instead it turned back 228 years and celebrated the birth of Wilhelm II's great-great-granduncle, Frederick II. An intellectual, artistic youth whose stern father had to smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take...