Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mulligan is extremely serious about his music. As early as he can remember, he was inventing tunes of his own on the piano-"I hate to play other people's." In seventh grade he got a clarinet and made his first arrangement. By his senior year at Philadelphia's West Catholic High School, he was a full-fledged arranger, and his studies had fallen off lamentably. "I walked into physics class and listened to the teacher. Man, I didn't get a word of it. Right then and there, I quit...
Needing 75% of the 264 ballots (each listing ten players) cast by the baseball writers, Dean made the grade with 209, Simmons with 199. Just missing for the second year in a row (by seven votes): New York Giant First Baseman Bill Terry, the last National Leaguer to hit over .400 (lifetime average: .341), later a pennant-winning manager, who made no bones about his dislike for baseball writers. Eligible for the first time, and finishing eighth in the balloting (117 votes): New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio...
...When I knocked at the door," recalls Carlos Rivera, 36, who supervises elementary Spanish in the El Paso public schools, "I repeated several times, 'Pase usted,' but I did not enter." The door led to a first-grade classroom filled with tots, few of whom spoke Spanish. They had been told only that their expected visitor "understands English, but does not speak it." The children soon grasped the meaning of Rivera's phrase ("Enter"), and repeated the invitation to come in. Rivera smiled and walked in with a greeting: "?Buenos dias...
During his first year of door-knocking, Rivera popped in on 25 first-grade classes, giving each 20 minutes, twice a week. The children soon eagerly awaited the visits of "el señor Rivera." Avoiding any appearance of "teaching," el señor concentrated on training his pupils' ears, getting his little hosts to think as well as speak in Spanish. With pictures or the actual objects involved, he engaged the children in increasingly fluent chats about such commonplaces as food, animals, colors, clothing and toys. To measure progress, Rivera, showing a drawing of a man, would...
...that grade that he lost his airbrake...