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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...splinter from a banged croquet mallet pierced Bob Russell's left eye when he was five, and sympathetic blindness struck his right one. He studied from first grade through high school at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, learned Braille and how to use a typewriter. He was a mainstay of the Institute wrestling team that consistently licked Columbia's freshmen and jayvees. In 1941 and 1942, Russell won the middleweight championships at the Westchester (N.Y.) County tournaments...
Texas, which after World War I opposed the teaching of all foreign languages in grade schools, may soon be as bilingual as New Mexico. Last week almost 13,000 Corpus Christi students from the third grade and up were learning to use Spanish as readily as English...
...which shares a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, 160,000 Mexican-born residents, and an uncounted number of U.S. citizens of Mexican and Spanish blood Spanish would seem to be a necessity, but in 1940, Corpus Christi had to disregard the state law even to make Spanish a grade-school subject. A year later, the state legalized this action. Two years later, 1,125 Texas school districts were teaching Spanish to some 250,000 children...
Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...
...offers a well-balanced program this weekend: two grade B pictures instead of the usual one piperoo, one stinkcroo. "Tartu," with gigolo Robert Donat and topid Valerie Hobson, is about a British spy doing impossible things in the heart of Nazi-held Czechoslovakia. That sort of thing just doesn't go over without some semblance of reality- and possibility; this was just too fantastic...