Word: classing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading, young Symington was an indifferent student in both high school and college days. A stubborn refusal to take a required mathematics course kept him from getting his Yale A.B. with the rest of his class in 1923 (Yale finally relented and gave him his degree 22 years later...
...reason is the teacher shortage, another the gnat-bitten nature of the U.S. English teacher's job. Instead of teaching young minds how to put meaning into words, he must pressure-cook a stew of abstract facts for easily graded objective tests geared to handle swelling classes. The average U.S. English teacher meets 175 students daily in five classes. Should he assign one theme a week to each class, he would spend four hours a night seven nights a week, plus half the weekend, correcting papers...
...champion!" ¶ A Loss of Roses has Shirley Booth as the listed star, but until the Booth part gets beefed up, the show belongs to Carol (Pajama Game) Haney. Latest of Playwright William Inge's lost characters, Haney's Lila Green is a high-spirited, Class-D showgirl who left home to search for the bright lights, but who has come back beaten, wanting "to crawl inside a man's shirt and stay there." Survivor of a disastrous marriage and a tour in a mental hospital, Lila moves in on Old Friend
Biography of a Missile gave Edward R. Murrow and the same CBS crew that put together other notable documentaries (Montgomery Speaks His Mind, The Lost Class of '59) another chance to demonstrate the most impressive techniques yet developed by TV journalism. From the cocky drawing-board confidence of the creators of Juno II, to the unforgettably tense faces of the missilemen when their bird was fired, Biography recorded every important aspect in the life of one of man's most intricate creations. The cameras sighted in on the meticulous welding of Juno's outer skin...
...worked hard as hell and didn't get much for it," sighed Coach Ben Martin, an old Army foe from his days as a Navy letterman (class of '45). But his underdog team had made an auspicious beginning for the threeway, interservice rivalry that could become the most engrossing in college football...