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Detroit's high-school swains discovered a ghost last spring. As they explained darkly to their giggling dates, the ghost was a little girl. She had been hurrying home from the playground when she was hit by an automobile coming down Strasburg Avenue. For a few moments, the little girl clung desperately to the car, rapping on the fender. The driver heartlessly drove on. Then the little girl lost her grip and was crushed beneath a rear wheel...
...slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate on each other, and the noise echoes in the car. Grumbled Novak: "I swear that nearly every high-school kid in Detroit has driven this street. They even have parties on my front lawn. Maybe if you tell them what it is, we can get some sleep again." City engineers checked the explanation, and the Detroit Times printed it. But Mr. Novak was overoptimistic. At week...
...landlady, Mrs. Osterloth, nagged at him to go back to school. "You're smart, McCarthy, you're smart," she insisted. Joe went back. With typically furious energy he signed up for 16 subjects, and finished the four-year high-school course in one year...
Since that day, Oilman Cullen has never stopped helping the University of Houston. When he began, the university was only three years old-a former junior college that had 1,300 students, 55 teachers and a single wooden shack on the San Jacinto high-school campus. By last week, when the university totted up its 1951 enrollment, even the eyes of Texas were wide with wonder. Houston announced that it had 13,541 students (second only to the University of Texas), a faculty of 513, a 260-acre campus. Thanks largely to the Cullen bounty, it was the fastest-growing...
...football rally of the year and can't help thinking I've witnessed the burial of a friend. Surely this isn't Harvard University, the greatest of schools, the ultimate goal of our nation's top teenage students? Now I'm just a local boy, fresh out of a high-school which keeps football in one place and studies in another; but if a half-hearted, unspirited, insipid rally similar to tonight's ever took place at Newton High, we'd give up both football and our school. There are, I am told, about ten thousand students in our fair...