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Amateur Cartoonist Kincaid's Contes Français now reaches 1,209,000 subscribers to five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...
...twelve years old. She is cursed with the catastrophe of parents, and her boy friends complete her misery by being too young to drive. She sulks behind a screen of bob by pins, slapping at her baby fat, mourning the birth of her acne. She is a worried sixth-grader, an aging child, a frightened girl-and the queen of the $100 million-a-year popular record industry...
Freidel was so upset by the reports that he hired a grader with his own money to reread the bluebooks. He also read many of them himself. According to Freidel, one of the course assistants had made "several errors in judgment," which necessitated the changes in grades...
After some arguing about who their candidate was going to be, the Democrats picked portly William Grader, 45, owner of a fish-processing plant and sometime political handyman for Congressman Miller. Grader was little known among the voters, and Republicans did as little as possible to call him to their attention. Democrats tried to concoct an issue by calling Clausen "Dodging Don," offering a $100 prize to anyone who could get him on the same platform with Grader...
...Grader seemed to have arithmetic going for him: on the registration rolls. Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 13,000 in the First District. But last week Clausen walloped Grader 79.340 to 65.317, and California's First went back to the Republicans...