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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently, however, the Court was convinced by the 1964 defense testimony of Boston area literary experts, including John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English. Attorney General Edward W. Brooke had moved against the book in Suffolk Superior Court under pressure from the Mass. Obscene Literature Control Commission...
Trouble was the last thing Dora Surowitz expected when she invested a hard-earned $2,000 in Hilton Hotels Corp. Trouble was the last thing Hilton expected from Mrs. Surowitz, a Brooklyn seamstress and Polish immigrant who had as little knowledge of stocks as she did of English. Yet last week the U.S. Supreme Court indignantly upheld Mrs. Surowitz's right to find out whether Hilton is, as she claims, hiding a multimillion-dollar fraud against its stockholders...
...noisy noise annoys an oyster," French students recite as they learn English pronunciation. The jet age is bothering more than oysters. French trial records mention a horse killed by a sonic boom, female mink driven to eating their young, and Burgundy wine soured by the roar of low-flying planes. What the French press blasts as "sonic aggression" has now led a Nice real estate man to an equally loud legal triumph that is sure to give airlines a splitting headache...
...Value. Staircase's success is a sweet surprise to Miss Kaufman, a vivacious divorcee and mother of two (her son is a Berkeley graduate student, her daughter a University of Wisconsin senior), who quit the New York City school system after 17 intermittent years as a high school English teacher to write her book. "I thought teachers would find it to be true," she says. "But I had no idea it would sweep the country." Now much in demand as a lecturer at teachers' conventions, Miss Kaufman lives in a Park Avenue apartment, likes the shift from classroom...
...Humorist Sholom Aleichem ("the Yiddish Mark Twain"), she was born in Berlin, lived until twelve in Russia, where her father practiced medicine and her mother wrote short stories. Her family then moved to The Bronx, where she was thrown into first grade with six-year-olds and learned English "by osmosis." She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, earned an M.A. in 18th century literature from Columbia, taught in every type of New York City high school, from those in slum areas to Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts...