Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Apology. Last spring, as a junior drill instructor, Matt McKeon led Recruit Platoon 71 on a night disciplinary march into the tidal waters of Ribbon Creek, where six boots were drowned (TIME, April 23). McKeon was charged with drinking in the barracks beforehand, with "oppression" of the platoon, and with culpable negligence in the six deaths. Maximum penalty for conviction on all counts: six years in prison and a dishonorable discharge...
Died. Judge John Tate Raulston, 87, Tennessee county judge who presided at the celebrated Scopes "monkey trial" (1925); in South Pittsburg, Tenn. A Fundamentalist himself, Raulston helped get Biology Instructor John Scopes, 24, indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution to his county high-school class by reading the opening chapters of Genesis to the grand jurors of Bible-belt Rhea County, presided at the trial as Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow relentlessly badgered Special Prosecuting Attorney William Jennings Bryan with agnostic Biblical quiddities. Baited by Darrow, Raulston snapped: "I hope you do not mean to reflect...
...fists prove his salvation when a penetrating instructor shows him how to "make hate work for him." In the prize ring, Graziano remains an undisciplined, roughhouse fighter, but now society applauds instead of imprisoning him. The habit of trouble is not broken. He misses scheduled bouts, tangles with gamblers and boxing commissions. Before he meets Tony Zale for the championship, newspapers break the story that Rocky had been dishonorably discharged from the Army for belting an officer...
...first Paine Hall music concert of the season, a song recital, will be given next Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 8:30 p.m. Malama Providakes, mezzosoprano, will be accompanied at the piano by Paul Des Marais, instructor in Music. Works by Ravel, Debussy, Faure, and Brahms will be performed. Two other concerts are on the summer agenda, one July 31, and the other August 15. Admission is free for all of them...
...work was only passable, but the teacher-shy high school was delighted to have another math instructor. Fordham moved his family into a house in nearby Hamilton, and his wife Geneva, who also had credentials from Westminster, landed a job in a Hamilton elementary school. For the Fordhams, the future seemed assured-until one day they applied for a small loan at the Household Finance Corp...