Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Craig Rice conceived a child instead of an idea, he would by now have progressed to first grade in school. But the idea has progressed faster. It has already turned into 15 books which have made her a highly successful mystery writer, with Hollywood contracts. And last week it turned into a contract to become editor of her own mystery magazine, the Craig Rice Crime Digest (scheduled to begin publication this spring...
John Jacob Astor, grandson of Mrs. William Astor, grande dame of the original Four Hundred, failed to make the grade. But ex-Wife Ellen Tuck French Astor made it, so did half-brother Vincent...
...weightiest brickbat had been the charge that Alcoa had blocked the disposal of surplus Government aluminum plants. Alcoa had refused, said SPAdministrator W. Stuart Symington, to license its patents on its process of converting low-grade bauxite into alumina (which is in turn smelted down to aluminum). This had blocked SPA's deal to lease the Hurricane Creek plant (which operates on low-grade bauxite) and Jones Mills aluminum plant to the Reynolds Metals Co. (TIME, Dec. 31). Alcoa's frail, grey-haired vice president, I. W. Wilson, had indignantly denied the charges. He did not stop there...
...still marks Bob Gross as a Bostonian. His family was fairly well-to-do, but his mother, of whom he says he is still scared to death, disapproved of the local schools. So she tutored Bob at home until he was ten. Then she put him in the first grade at public school. She had taught him so well that by afternoon he had been promoted to fifth grade. He spent his last school year at fashionable St. George's School in Newport. At Harvard he turned into a joiner and a doer...
...Best." Last week, in a bare-boarded, dirty-windowed courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square, before a U.S. Army general court-martial, the ugly story began to unfold. The first defendant was slight, mild-looking Sergeant Judson H. Smith, a guard at the camp, who got an 8th-grade education in bloody Harlan County, Ky. In the words of Colonel James A. Kilian, camp commandant, Smith was "one of the best non-commissioned officers I've ever seen." In four perspiring hours on the stand, Smith denied all charges of mistreating prisoners. Outside the court, the disarmingly forthright...