Word: harrison
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...letter shapes, the theory goes), granted $61,900 to the Denver school system to pursue a unique program that teaches parents to teach their preschool tots how to read. The reading technique, originally developed for use in Denver kindergartens, was devised by Dr. Paul McKee and Miss M. Lucile Harrison, both professors of elementary education at Colorado State College, relies on a system of phonics based on the sound of initial consonants to help a child associate words he knows orally with the way the words look on a page. ("Listen as I say the names of these things: mitten...
Died. George Harrison Bender, 64, plodding, good-natured, seven-term Republican Congressman from Ohio, best remembered as Robert A. Taft's floor manager and bellringer at the 1952 G.O.P. convention; of a heart attack; in his Chagrin Falls home outside of Cleveland...
...Harrison Pendleton Bresee Jr., 30, whose father raises Herefords near tiny Orange, Va. Bresee is an ex-G.I. who got his forestry degree from the University of the South in 1956, then "just took off" to thumb and hike his way through much of Africa, Asia and Europe for four years. He used a beard, a bit of French and a cast-iron stomach to impress African tribesmen, figures he already knows the secret of getting along in Tanganyika (which he visited): "They accept you if you sit down and eat with them." Fond of Africans and their wildlife...
After a professional visit to Alabama in April 1960, veteran New York Times Reporter Harrison Salisbury reported that the city of Birmingham was a smoldering volcano of racial tension, "a community of fear." These and other Salisbury conclusions, published in a two-part series, outraged six Birmingham and neighboring Bessemer city commissioners (plus one police detective), who separately brought libel suits against Salisbury and the Times and asked a total of $3,100,000 in damages. Last week in New Orleans, by holding that a newspaper published in New York City could not be sued for libel in Alabama...
Salinger, U.S. presidential press secretary and Reporter Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times...