Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Martha McChesney Berry, 75, "the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot," founder and developer of the famed Berry Schools for poor mountain children; in Atlanta. As the young daughter of a wealthy north Georgia cotton planter, she read stories to poor-folk neighbors, built (and taught in) first one log-cabin school, then another, next established a boarding school (now more than 1,000 students). She was one of the first modern educators to recognize the need for teaching crafts, one of the first to set up a work-and-study plan, saw her ideas widely copied...
...recently published "Jazz Record Book" will prove helpful to folk who are just beginning to grope their way along the paths and bypaths of jazz music and need a few signposts. But for the devotee who knows all the available records and what he likes as well, the chief interest of the book would seem to be merely the opportunity it offers for comparing his own appraisals with those of the authors. I'm not sure whether that is worth...
...suffering of the miners grows, the wages go lower still, blackness seems to come over the whole valley, and finally the mine blows up, killing Mr. Morgan, father of the family. The last two minutes are a reverie recalling what the valley looked like before the "city folk took over...
Music and sports have always played their part in his spare time. One of his prides is an extensive collection of American folk music in which he does not hesitate to include the blues. He smiles and confesses, however, "I don't know anything about jazz." In high school Buck played second base on the ball team until his eyes forced him into track, where he continued running the middle distances throughout college. Now he devotes three afternoons each week to the Faculty Fistball Class in the Sargent Gymnasium. He still retains an interest in baseball and sticks...
...since 1776 have Americans been much interested in British politics. Few U.S. folk today know how Parliament works or whether the British have a constitution for their "constitutional mon archy."* But before 1942 is out, what happens politically in England may have grave consequences in the U.S. and to the United Nations' effort...