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Last week William Buckley Sr. was making plans for his 28 grandchildren. In a circular sent out to Sharon, Lakeville and Salisbury parents who he thought might be interested in going along with him, he announced that next fall he would open a school to train pupils "to resist the blight of Liberalism and Communism they will encounter in almost all elementary schools." The new Buckley school -for students from four to 14-should be one of the more radical educational experiments of the coming year...
...small printed circular was certainly sedate enough to come from such a blue-blooded prep school as Massachusetts' Groton. But to the hundreds of alumni who received it in the mail last week it was, to say the least, something of a shock. "As desegregation is clearly the prime social duty facing the country today," said the circular, "Groton wishes to do all a school can towards complete eradication of the evil of segregation ... In consistence with Christian doctrine and the teachings of the Bible and in consistence with the human beliefs of two of Groton's most...
With that, the circular invited friends, alumni-and the N.A.A.C.P.-to help find eligible Negroes, grandly declared that money would be no object. "Groton pledges, if necessary, the full use of its entire endowment fund towards scholarships for this purpose...
Before long, the school (which already has three Negroes) began to get phone calls and telegrams. Just what was going on at good old Groton? Not a thing, the school replied hastily: though "we are open to all qualified candidates regardless of race, religion or creed," the circular was a fraud, its author unknown. Said one alumnus as he chucked his circular away: "And I was just about to write them out a check...
...rules of the game were laid down long ago by Mair, the hantan hero-god who lives in the blue sky (which is solid, and rests on the circular rim of the earth like a blue derby). Mair used to make all human beings in a pot, but one day a silly woman walked past one of the pots and peeked into it-ruining a half-made baby. Mair was so angry that he picked up the fetus and threw it in the woman's belly. "That'll teach you to be inquisitive," he said...