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Bubbles & Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...
...Members of Joe Ryan's A.F.L. longshoremen, who a week earlier had balked at unloading inbound cargoes of Russian furs and crab meat, refused to touch 2,000 cases of Polish hams aboard two American freighters at New York docks...
...Cunarder Parthia, tied up at a Manhattan dock last week, had "hot cargo" in her hold. A.F.L. longshoremen put the label on 2,500 packing cases marked "Chatka, Fancy." The cases held 88 tons of Russian crab meat...
...Boston, a few days later, dockers refused to put a second shipment of crab meat into the unloading nets. On a third ship in New York, the workers left $138,888 worth of Russian furs in the hold...
...didn't matter to the longshoremen that it was the British, not the Russians, who stood to lose on the crab meat (which had been foisted on the British by Russia in place of promised timber). Similarly, the furs had already been bought by U.S. furriers; Russia wouldn't lose a kopeck on them. To the A.F.L. longshoremen the issue was simple: they were all Russian goods. Said a dockers' spokesman: "Let them send their crab meat ... to the Reds in North Korea-that's where they are sending their tanks, guns [and] planes...