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Died. Erie Stanley Gardner, 80, creator of Perry Mason and this century's bestselling American author (see BOOKS...
...less than a cultural change. Such jobs need not be regarded as menial; the person performing a service is exercising power, doing something for the customer that he cannot do for himself. But the U.S. has long been moving in the opposite direction, toward the state that John W. Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition, warned about in his book Excellence: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing, because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy, because it is an exalted activity...
...good mystery story is like apple pie, said Erie Stanley Gardner. "I could give you all the ingredients, tell you how hot your oven must be and how long to leave the pie in. It might come out good; it might taste lousy. But if you get a good piece of pie and eat it after a good meal, you'll like apple...
...basic thinking of the message, added the caveat: "We are not going to find any panaceas in this business, but we had better start now, because we cannot afford to go on putting large sums into education while the reading levels go down, down, down." To which John Gardner responded: "We all can arrive at a variety of judgments about our schools, about what works and what doesn't. But whatever else they need, they need money, and this is especially true of the schools in the inner city." The main danger in Nixon's essentially sound approach...
Acting School Superintendent Robert Kelly contends that that will require busing more than 240,000 children at a cost of $180 million over the next eight years; School Board President Arthur Gardner declared that this would "virtually destroy the school district." It already faces a deficit that could reach $54 million next year. The school board will appeal the decision and the case may well wind up in the Supreme Court...