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...Joan Ring of Clayton, Mo., a 17-year-old high-school student, made a pilgrimage to the shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Roman Catholic Church has officially affirmed miracles of healing. Joan, a devout Catholic, had undergone an operation for cancer and was seeking "spiritual help" for recovery. A little more than a year after her visit to Lourdes she had completely recovered. When they filed their joint 1949 income tax, Joan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Ring, claimed the cost of the trip to Lourdes ($2,787.19) as a medical expense...
...Test for a Pigeon. A young farmer who must make his way should select a "Type I" wife. She should be "sound of wind and limb," should not have more than a high-school education, and "should not be disturbed by muddy boots in her kitchen, nor by the dogs sleeping under the stove . . . nor the continuous parade of newborn pigs and lambs in bushel baskets by the kitchen stove. She should be farm-reared . . . It takes a woman a long time to learn how to get her weight properly under a bale...
...golfer ever since his high-school days, Mike needed the financial backing of a Durham, N.C. furniture man when he first struck out on the circuit. He was winning too little to take care of his motel bills. Now he figures he has a chance to win any tournament he enters-even the Masters. And he is paying his own way. He has long since proved that he can use his clubs to whack out a good bit more than the price of room and board...
...segregationist Citizens Council of Indianola, Miss. offered a $50 prize for the best essay written as part of the required work in the high-school's junior and senior English classes. Subject of the essay: "The Advantages to Both Races of Continued Separate Schools...
...circulation exceeds a billion copies yearly, and the $100 million spent on them is 1) more than U.S. grade and high schools spend for books and 2) four times the book budgets of U.S. public libraries. Readers are not all children. Comic books are regularly read by 25% of high-school graduates, 16% of college graduates and 12% of U.S. teachers...