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...social textbook field for grade-school children is largely divided between Hanna's series and that of pioneer Progressive Educator Harold Rugg (TIME, Sept. 9, 1940). With a momentum built up by his high-school books since 1922, Rugg's elementary series has sold over 2,000,000 copies. Hanna's series, starting cold in 1936, is already pushing the 1,500,000 mark...
...last year's 18 teachers, eleven did not come back. One grade-school teacher stayed, eight quit. Six high-school teachers stayed, three quit. The median teaching experience of the ten replacements is one and a quarter years (three and three quarters fewer than that of those who quit); the median age is 22 years...
Benito Juarez Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, born July 29, 1883, tasted the grey bread of the poor in his early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...
...Maplewood, NJ. high-school teacher's advice to take up typing because "you can't make money as an actress." Teresa's present salary is about $1,000 a week. Daughter of a widowed, peripatetic insurance salesman, she once played a rippling brook in a grade-school pageant, a few roles in high-school plays. Then, unable to type fast enough to pass her stenographer's tests, she put in two solid summers with the Wharf Theater players in Provincetown, Mass., thence sailed right on to Broadway...
...winning the national grade-school spelling bee in Washington last week, eleven-year-old Richard Earnhart of El Paso, Tex. got $500 and a two-day trip to New York City. There he had his first brush with the metropolitan press, came off winner, hands down, over a flabbergasted World-Telegram reporter...