Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Funny & Serious. Impetus for the series came from the late Texas Publisher-Philanthropist Clyde E. Palmer, a loyal McGuffey old grad. The Palmer Foundation is underwriting $200,000 of the capital costs of the series, gets in return a 4% royalty. American Book started the series in 1956 with readers for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, this summer brought out books for the first three grades. In 1959: volumes for seventh-and eighth-graders...
...take some six hours of indoctrination lectures. This program dovetails with Antioch's famous "study-plus-work" plan, which alternates classroom work on the campus with full-time off-campus jobs aimed at helping the student's "personal development, his general education and his vocational training." One loyal employer of Antioch students: the Columbus Citizen. "It's a little unnerving," notes one staffer. "When the Antioch kids aren't sharpening their pencils or going after coffee, they're sitting in the corner reading Plato's Dialogues...
...face of such an uprising, Progressivite Montanari hustled abroad, left Party-lining Foreign Minister Gino Giacomini to cope with mutinous parents, including many loyal Communists. Said Giacomini soothingly: "We don't want to persecute anyone, certainly not dear Mother Veronica." At week's end, the closing order remained in effect, but parents were still entrusting their daughters to Mother Veronica's medieval-minded ways. Explained the wife of Communist Party Secretary General Gildo Gasperoni: "Her school is better than the others...
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, a chubby man of 56, last week commemorated the day 24 years ago when, as a lowly army sergeant, he threw out a bumbling government and began his long career as off-and-on President and strongman of Cuba. But even as he pep-talked loyal troops at Camp Columbia, outside Havana. Batista warily shuffled guards at all military installations, held Havana cops on the alert in their barracks. Rumors were flying that the bearded young rebel, Fidel Castro, holed up in the Sierra Maestra, planned to celebrate Batista's 24th anniversary with an uprising...
...Just Honestly." Loyal fans were not dying to have them go. They would not soon forget bald, bulb-nosed-Kukla and mischievous Ollie. the one-toothed dragon who could not breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he washed his flop-ears: "I can't do a thing with them," or Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Halloween, or their foil and sweetheart Fran Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that...