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...Polltakers erred in their sampling (e.g., they interviewed a higher percentage of college graduates than the actual population contains, a lower percentage of people with grade-school educations...
...school opened, New York City found itself caught way off base. In spite of all the preparations for record enrollments, 518,000 pupils showed up for grade-school classes-a whopping 15,000 more than were expected. Hired forthwith: 100 new grade-school teachers...
...During the 1951-52 school year, more children than ever before were enrolled in elementary grades. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that grade-school classrooms bulged with 21,800,000 pupils, 600,000 more than in the previous year...
Sutton decided what a jazz piano should sound like when he first heard some Fats Waller records as a Howell, Mo. grade-school boy. Employed in the six-man dance band which his father led as a weekend hobby, twelve-year-old Ralph soon began disorganizing the outfit with Waller-style chords and riffs plus a smattering of local St. Louis ragtime. At 19, his swinging, loose-jointed beat and limber wrists got him a job as pianist with Jack Teagarden's band. In 1942 he was drafted. Since the war he has wandered in & out of Manhattan jazz...
...incident also drew the attention of the authorities to Bekbayev, who, reported Pravda, turned out to be an "ignoramus, bluffer and suppressor of self-criticism." Among other crimes, he had only had a grade-school education and had issued himself two phony diplomas, one of them making him a "Master of Sports...