Word: journals
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Considering a teacher's lot and a teacher's pay, why should anybody want to be a teacher? Well, there are reasons. In the National Education Association's monthly Journal, Wisconsin Teacher Dorothy McCuskey recalled a couple of her own: "The day you help Johnny discover that multiplication is really a short form of adding, the day a whole class cooperates to write a poem which expresses the fresh new beauty of a child's world, you know why teaching holds people. . . . All farmers and even tenders of city ivy pots know the fascination of watching...
...Fesler's halfbacks, it appeared, had written to a Southern football coach. The Atlanta Journal's Sports Columnist Ed Danforth gleefully reprinted the letter "faithfully, even to the spelling." The letter...
Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...
...Vandenberg: "Many of our interests run with those of the union. We weaken our position by our lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...
...psychological traits inherited? Dr. Calvin S. Hall, of Western Reserve University, believes that some are. In the current Journal of Heredity, he reports experiments to prove his point. His subjects: mice. The trait chosen for study: "audiogenic seizures," i.e., dying in convulsions when scared by a sudden noise...