Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knottiest Problem. By the end of his first-reader period, a child should have a reading vocabulary of 400 to 600 sight words; by the end of the sixth, 7,200 to 8,500. But some will have more and some many less, and this brings the teacher hard up...
Since automatic promotion is pretty much the rule, many classes are divided into fast and slow groups. The bright use the same primers as the slow, but they are encouraged to supplement their reading with other books. At the third grade, says Assistant Superintendent William Kottmeyer of St. Louis, comes...
One of its noted graduates was Dr. Rudolph Matas, born of Spanish parents in nearby Bonnet Carre. When the surgery chair was vacant in 1894, there was talk of importing a Johns Hopkins man, but the New Orleans press staged an unprecedented campaign: "Matas and Matas only!" "Call for Matas...
¶ Already the recipient of $1,750,000 from the Sealantic Fund (John D. Rockefeller Jr.) for its theology faculty, and $4,324,200 from the Ford Foundation's great gift to U.S. colleges (TIME, Dec. 26), the University of Chicago received an estimated $15 million plus from the...
Married. Enos ("Country") Slaughter, 39, outfielder for the Kansas City Athletics, longtime (1938-53) heavy-hitting star of the St. Louis Cardinals; and Helen Spiker, 25, TWA stewardess; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Cumberland, Md.