Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these progressive times, there is another course open to Teacher Graner: she can play poker with eleven-year-old, fourth-grade Roscoe, and see just who beats up whom...
...Nathan Leopold stayed on, teaching in the prison school, reorganizing the library, offering himself for malaria-control experiments during World War II. He applied for parole three times, wras turned down each time-until last week, when the Illinois parole board on a split vote approved his fourth application. He promised to devote his life to good works, plans to take a $10-a-month hospital job in Puerto Rico. Yet Leopold is still not convinced that his mind is not that of a superman. In his book, Life Plus 99 Years (Doubleday; $5.50), published this week, he refuses...
...that evening, Churchill's private secretary read a roomful of correspondents a 26-word bulletin signed by both doctors: Sir Winston had pneumonia and pleurisy. It was the fourth attack of pneumonia in Sir Winston's 83 years, and, said Dr. Roberts, "everything is troublesome to a man of his age." The world waited edgily for the next communiqu...
Nearly one-fourth of the postwar immigrants have settled in Toronto, and they have made their mark there. In a city long accustomed to dining out on roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, new restaurants with such names as Czarda, Moulin Rouge and House of Fujimatsu add variety to the bill of fare. Some 20 foreign-language newspapers cater to the newcomers, and the sports pages in the city's dailies report the scores of soccer games between teams named the Polish White Eagles or the Ulster Uniteds...
...committed the outrage with all the innocence in the world. One day last December she inadvertently dismissed her fourth-grade class late, found that the school bus, which normally takes three of her boys home, had already left. She offered to drive the boys home herself. But as luck would have it, she found that her car had a flat tire. Just then, a Negro school bus drove into sight, and one of the boys, Pat Taylor, 9, sensibly pointed out that "it goes right by my house." Teacher Baskin assured the boy that she would drive him home once...