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...given 100 blood and plasma transfusions, while his weight dropped from 168 to 112 lbs. He got 18 skin grafts, became famous as the first victim of such severe burns to be saved by medical science. Last week, back in his native Midwest, Johnson was driving a truck near Jefferson City, Mo. He missed a turn, and his truck crashed into a ditch, caught fire. Clifford Johnson was burned to death...
...twelve years, the Jefferson School of Social Science had sent its students forth from a nine-story building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas grounded thoroughly, if not in the tenets of Jeffersonian democracy, at least in the ABCs of Marxism. Founded in 1944, the school flourished in its early years, hit a peak enrollment of an astonishing 14,000 in 1946-47. Sample courses: "Principles of Marxism (which postulates are valid for the U.S.?)"; "Guitar Playing and Song Leading I and II (with emphasis on the use of the guitar as a social instrument)." For years...
Despite a modest tuition of only $8, enrollment dwindled as the school's troubles piled up, was down to 400 this fall. Last week, with no perceptible whisper of protest from an estimated 120,000 alumni, Jefferson trustees plaintively announced that they would close up shop at the end of the current semester. "Unwarranted persecution by the Federal Government," they wailed, "has created a financial situation in which it is impossible for the school to continue...
...their eyes, of sprawling in their seats (because they cannot see how sloppy they look), and walking with their heads bent low. But integration has not been a boon to the blind alone. "It works both ways," says First-Grade Teacher Wilba Bourgeois of New Orleans' Thomas Jefferson School: "It teaches the sighted to be kind and patient. It also challenges them. When they see a blind child who can read and spell, they know that they should be able...
...small fire in a wooden shed adjacent to Jefferson Physics Laboratory Saturday night at 11:30 p.m. caused an undetermined amount of damage, Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics, revealed last night...