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...prepare himself for his job as principal of the new school, Gallaudet set out to study the methods of Europe. In France, he met deaf Laurent Clerc, a teacher at the Royal School for Deaf-Mutes. Gallaudet persuaded Clerc to come back with him to America as the first member of his new faculty. On the long voyage home, Gallaudet taught Clerc English, and Clerc taught his new colleague more about the deaf...
...usual, L'Humanité was a day late with the news. The non-Communist Paris press had it from the government, which had it from its ambassador in Moscow, that French Communist Laurent Casanova had asked for four visas: one for himself, one for Maurice Thorez, one for Thorez' wife Jeannette Vermeersch, and one for a secretary. It was two years and five months since French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez had been struck down with brain hemorrhage and whisked off to Moscow for treatment; ever since, the air had been filled with reports of what wonders Soviet medicine...
...Created by the late Jean de Brunhoff and perpetuated by his son Laurent, The Story of Babar, The Travels of Babar, Babar the King, and six other sequels have sold more than 2,000,000 copies...
...Louis St. Laurent...
BABAR'S VISIT TO BIRD ISLAND (40 pp.) -Laurent de Brunhoff-Random House ($3.50). What happens when a royal family of elephants pays a social visit to the Bird King & Queen, told with engaging naturalness by a French author-artist who knows how to splash his pages with vivid panoramic views that have what every child loves in a picture-a brilliant general impression combined with endless small details to be picked out at leisure...