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...portrait painter who affects a Mongol-style mustache; brunette Novella Parigini, a great friend of Errol Flynn's, who paints sexy calendar girls and looks like one; dignified, 70-year-old Giuseppe Carosi, who lives with his cats in a genteel Victorian apartment; lean, intense Communist Sculptor Nino Franchina, who does abstractions in metals...
Principal Franchina's next step: a survey of parents to find out what can be done about...
...Stamford, Conn. (pop. 50,000), more & more names were turning up on the Burdick Junior High School's biweekly failure lists. Principal Joseph J. Franchina started to nose out the trouble-and he thought he knew what it was. Principal Franchina smelled television...
...were right. Of his entire student body, 223 (50%) were averaging close to four hours a day watching TV. In many cases it did not matter that the youngsters had no sets at home; after classes they traipsed to neighbors' houses where there were sets. Franchina's figures meant that at the end of each week, at least half of Burdick's pupils had spent as much time sitting before TV as before teacher...
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