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...Farmers Union, Denver. Essentially the farm organ of Trumanite Democrats, with a voice that seems higher than its membership: 308,000 family memberships in 25 states, strongest in the wheat-growing states of North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. President: loose-jointed, Kansas-born James G. Patton, 53, onetime high-school athletic director. General counsel: ex-President Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Economic adviser: Leon Keyserling, chairman of Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The Farmers Union was organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving...
...asked Edwin Roy Hamlett, 34, an auto salesman. "We're police officers," shouted Deputy Parks, and the door opened. "All right," rasped Parks, "where's it hidden?" Hamlett protested that he did not know what they were talking about. Reporter Cook, a high-school halfback who packs 210 lbs. into his 6 ft. 1 in. frame, took turns with Parks trying to cuff a confession about the robbery out of Hamlett...
...public high-school class, many experts agree, invariably bogs down to the pace of its dullest and most recalcitrant pupils. What can be done about it? In the current Atlantic Monthly, Ohio High-School Teacher Caspar D. Green offers a remedy as drastic as any suggested yet. Says Green, in effect: throw the recalcitrants...
...troubles of Teacher Richer offer eloquent testimony to our growing tendency toward a sterile conformity of thought and behavior. Richer was born 30 years too late because the school system now is interested in only making plowboys or well-oiled cogs in the social machine. As to the teaching of the study of Communism in the school system, it is scant wonder at the success of brainwashing in Korea, when a high-school teacher is not permitted to discuss capitalism v. Communism . . . ROBERT D. BEACH Carmel, Indiana...
Only four summers ago, Ike Eichelberger was a skinny youngster who knew little about Turkish or any other methods. Along with a crowd of other high-school hopefuls, he appeared at Lehigh for a week-long wrestling clinic. Coach Gerald Leeman worked hard with him, and helped Ike to get a scholarship (which Ike keeps by holding his engineering grades up to a commendable B-minus). Today the 5 ft. 7 in. champ weighs close...