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...more bend me to Esther with love...
...students listened to records or watched movies that acquainted them with the settings of such works as The Diary of a Young Girl, Hiroshima, Treasure Island and the Bible's Book of Esther. Then they read the books, discussed them, wrote papers about them, acted out some of the roles, prepared newspapers based on the stories. At the end of the project, compared with kids in regular classes, they showed superior ability in reading comprehension, understanding words, effective written expression. They did just as well as the regular students in grammar and spelling...
...Died. Esther Forbes, 76, author who breathed fresh life into Colonial Amer ica in eleven well-received books, won the 1942 Pulitzer history prize for her Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (while waiting in North Boston to start his famous ride, he realized that he'd forgotten his spurs, sent his dog home with a note asking that they be brought to him), a year later wrote Johnny Tremain, a historical novel aimed at teen-agers but flavorful enough for adults; of rheumatic heart disease; in Worcester, Mass...
...Died. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, 97, pioneering medical missionary, a petite Oregon physician who followed wanderlust and the healing arts around the globe, joined the 1897 gold rush to Alaska, served World War I hospital duty with the Red Cross in France, in 1922 tended Greek refugees under siege by the Turks in Smyrna, and as chairman from 1919 until last May of the American Women's Hospital Service founded clinics for the homeless in 30 nations; in Manhattan...
Divorced. James A. Pike, 54, controversial Episcopal Bishop of California until he resigned his diocesan duties last year, now a fellow at Santa Barbara's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; by Esther Yanovsky Pike, 48; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty (she said he stayed away from home), after 25 years of marriage, four children; in San Francisco...