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Frances Horwich achieved celebrity only this month, when she took a leave of absence as chairman of Roosevelt's education department to become founder, principal and only teacher of something called the Ding Dong School. Today, Ding Dong has hundreds of pre-kindergarten pupils, all of whom attend television classes five mornings a week. By last week, Ding Dong was getting so much fan mail (more than 100 letters a day) that station WNBQ decided to keep its experimental school open...
...weekly "Editor's Report" last week, William Randolph Hearst Jr, gave Hearst readers an impartial look at the Taft-Ike battle, then slyly added a story about another ding-dong political race...
...York City's Calvary Baptist Church. The subjects-the infallibility of the Bible, evolution, the Virgin Birth, the divinity and second coming of Christ- were, says Potter, "part of a crisis in theology." Police and firemen had to be called out to handle the crowds, and the ding-dong battle made Potter, at West Side Unitarian Church, one of Manhattan's best-known preachers...
...Letter. For a few seconds it was so quiet that the ding-ding of distant streetcars was clearly heard. Then hundreds of people were running toward Blair-Lee House. A panting skirmish line of photographers charged in. A hefty Secret Service man named Floyd Boring looked up, saw the President, who had been aroused from a nap, peering out an upstairs window in his underwear. Boring bawled: "Get back! Get back!" until the President stepped out of sight...
...fresh lore about the quaint folkways of old Frank Hague and his crumbled Hudson County political barony. Last week Auditor Sternkopf announced happily that he had tracked down full details of one of the most significant rituals of Boss Hague's time-an institution known as "Rice Pud ding...