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...factory workers can understand Vellucci, for he has lived much the same kind of life they have. Born in the "Brickbottom" section just across the Cambridge-Somerville line in 1914, he moved to Squires Court in East Cambridge when he was three years old. He went to a Cambridge grammar school, but at fourteen was forced to quit school and find a job when his father died. Although he attended evening high school for a while, he never graduated. "I've done a lot of reading on my own," Vellucci adds, however, "and I've taken correspondence courses on accounting...
...your correspondents [Oct. 1] says Estes will campaign with the call, "Pie in the sky with Adlai and I." I distinctly remember Ike's thanking all who had been so kind "to Mamie and I," but I have yet to hear Estes use bad grammar...
...month before this book's publication, Boston papers broke into a rash of headlines: SPICY BOOK HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AGOG. The town: Gilmanton (pop. 750). The book's author: Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, plump, ponytailed, blue-jeaned wife of the principal of Gilmanton's grammar school. The school board had not renewed George Metalious' contract, but the decision was taken, said the board convincingly, before anyone knew what was in the book. Still, Grace remarked grandly to reporters: "I knew this would happen. Everybody who lives in a small town knows what's going...
...into the canyons of Manhattan, enjoyed some semisecret days of fleshpot scouring without revealing his resting place ("I just want to confuse the hell out of Celebrity Service"), made a special excursion to the Bronx Zoo to converse with its two hippos ("I needed Miss Mary around for the grammar"), slipped off as quietly as he had arrived for a sojourn in Europe...
...University of Illinois has announced that after September 1960 it will drop its noncredit freshman course. Rhetoric 100. The course, aimed at teaching college students "the common decencies" of spelling and grammar, is being dropped to put pressure on high schools to produce graduates with at least an elementary knowledge of how to write. Said Rhetoric 100's Professor Charles W. Roberts: "Laboring to get 18-year-old men and women to tell the difference between 'their' and 'there' is not the proper business of higher education...