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...growth," and in his early years he had quite a case himself. Said he: "I stood many an evening on a soapbox, preaching 'Socialism, the Hope of the World.' " In 1912, while teaching at the anarchist Ferrer Modern School in New York City, he met dark-eyed Ida Kaufman, a precocious 14-year-old pupil so "sprightly" he called her Puck and later Ariel. She pursued her 27-year-old instructor relentlessly, until he "fell in love with her and kidnaped her and married her." The bride, who carried roller skates to the altar, became his lifelong collaborator...
...displacement of Japanese Americans in 1942 was not entirely without benefit. The Federal Government allowed Nisei to work in rural mid-America, far from the strategic areas. As a result, in 1943 the school board of St. Edward, Neb. (pop. 720), hired Peter Ida to teach in its high school. Ida was a gifted man who had a positive and lasting influence on me and my 27 classmates...
...daughters) and the wholly exotic (goblins and dream-scapes), where natural law, like the reader, is held in suspense. The time is the past indefinite; costumes indicate the 19th century, but there are references to the 1930s, and at one time Mozart can be seen working at a hammerklavier. Ida, the oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward out her window and into the sky, tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable...
...Phileas Fogg's, the means even less down to earth. In a gossamer-thin (.004 in.) polyurethane balloon rigged with a 14-ft. by 10-ft. unpressurized gondola, famed Aeronaut Maxie Anderson, 46, set out from Luxor, Egypt, last week, along with fellow Businessman and Adventurer Don Ida, 47. Their plan: to travel eastward around the world-south of Iran and the U.S.S.R. (hostile airspace), south of the Himalayas (deadly to balloons), over the Pacific and North America to an eastern Mediterranean landing spot-in less than ten days. To complete the high-speed journey, the eleven-story-high...
Bryant's long career began in Moro Bottom, Ark. His father was a hardscrabble farmer struggling to eke out a living in the Depression South. When the elder Bryant was disabled by high blood pressure, his wife Ida kept the family going by selling vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. Young Paul perched beside her and felt the sting of disparagement from the "city kids" of nearby Fordyce (pop. 3,206). He first won social acceptance as a fiercely combative football player for the state-champ Fordyce Redbugs, and football has since made him the guest of Presidents...