Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare write musical shows? The answer seemed to rest last week with James Caesar Petrillo, who never got beyond the fifth grade. To the producers, Broadway's current The Tempest (TIME, Feb. 5) is a play by William Shakespeare with incidental music by David Diamond. To Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, it is "a musical show because of the amount of music in it, and we don't care whether it is by Shakespeare or by Joe Doakes...
When the news came, Mrs. Ralph Hubbard was at Oklahoma City's Crippled Children's Hospital reading to polio victims. Nurse's Aide Hubbard dashed out, ran all the way to the Culbertson School and right into the First Grade. There she gave her son Joe the news: his father was safe...
...jovial boys-in-the-back-room scene, which provoked an arch rebuke from the New York Mirror, a weekly, of June 13, 1835: "We might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged in whittling their way through a deal. A third favorite in the show: Farmers Nooning, a sunny, almost odorous scene of farmhands...
Recent figures, however, indicate this the radio training program is no easy road to a petty officer grade. Well over one fourth of those who are accept eventually flunk out, while in spite of promises less than half the rest receive a rating higher than seaman, first class. The recruiting center in the Boston are for candidates for radio training is in the Federal Building at Post Office Square room...
...Colorado's water, but California farmers feared increased competition from Texas and Mexico. Much Mexican land on the lower Colorado was as productive (if irrigated) as California's famed Imperial Valley. It might compete with California's cotton and vegetable crop. South Texas raises high-grade citrus fruit and is closer than California to Eastern U.S. markets. California would like to stop that irrigation leak...