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...Lucy Madeira Wing, who was 75 last week, is a reformed tomboy. For 52 years, as a kind of "retribution" for an early and intense dislike of anybody in skirts, she has been teaching girls. "Miss Madeira," founder and headmistress of Virginia's exclusive, expensive and excellent Madeira School, went to public school herself. She would like to see the day when private schools like .Madeira close down...
...Madeira School was founded for a grubbier motive than most educators like to admit: Lucy wanted to make more money. A Vassar graduate ('96), Miss Madeira began teaching English and history in a Washington, D.C. private school. After ten years of it, she was earning $950 a year. Borrowing $6,000, she started her school in 1906 in a rented building in downtown Washington. One month before the term began, a parent telegraphed to ask if there were any openings. Replied Miss Madeira: "All of them...
...Mississippi basin. Few stayed. Twice the Amazon has been tapped-by the rubber boom at the turn of the century and the mad rubber hunt during World War II. The first left a high-domed opera house at Manáos and the 226-mile single-track Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The World War II boom established some of the beginnings of modern sanitation and medicine in a vast wilderness inhabited by some 200,000 people, most of them Indians...
...some 600 Zanzibaris, 60 armed Soudanese, four Syrians, 13 Somalis. During part of the journey it carried a wealthy slave raider named Tippu-Tib, "gorgeously clad in silks, a jeweled turban and jeweled kris," with his 96 relatives. Among the cargo were several cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted. Stanley led the expedition by sounding a piercing whistle, "a kind of marine foghorn with a huge gong." While Stanley's steamer chugged up the Congo, Emin made preparations to receive his visitors...
...Erma. For weeks her people endured the racking eccentricities of her progress from grey gully to dirty crest of endless rain-pocked seas. But 62 days after leaving Stockholm the Erma lay anchored under a hot sun off the green hills and white buildings of the Island of Madeira. They wanted to go ashore, but the port authorities said: "No Communists wanted here...