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TIME'S story on Walter Reuther [June 20] ... is in itself G.A.W. (Grand Award Writing). Chalk up a victory against Communist propaganda, which keeps yowling about the dirty deals capitalists give labor. Chalk up a victory for common sense, which averted a disastrous auto strike. And chalk up a victory for the nation as a whole, because a stabilized wage means a more stabilized economy...
...British Empire Medal was awarded to James Philip Bullen, chief officer in Her Majesty's Prison at Edinburgh, to Alfred Chalk, Inspector of Flushing for the London County Council, and to some 300 other similarly deserving subjects...
...when he was five the wordless, spastic child grabbed a piece of chalk in the toes of his left foot, and showed that he had control of one limb. Between confinements, his indomitable mother taught him the alphabet. When he was seven Christy spelled out MOTHER. It was one of the proudest moments that Christy Brown, now 22, reports in his autobiography, My Left Foot (Simon & Schuster; $3). From that moment, though unschooled, Christy went on to painting and writing stories, always with his left foot. Relying on that same limb, he had himself thrown into a canal...
...review of the motion picture Blackboard Jungle, I am intrigued by the pronouncement that "Louis Calhern captures that special look of secret decay that can come from breathing chalk dust for 30 years [March 21]". While I am considerably short of 30 years in high-school service, I have inhaled a great deal of that insidious white stuff which produces "the secret decay." (Laymen may not know that some times after a concussion of erasers on the blackboard, the familiar mushroom cloud of dust rises high in the air and results in heavy fallout many feet from the point...
Your Cinema reviewer owes apologies to the hundreds of thousands of dedicated public-school teachers who plan to go on "breathing chalk dust for 30 years...