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...Founders John and Anne Holden, both 42, all this was not meant to be just an easy way of getting themselves a campus. Both former teachers at Vermont's Putney School, they had long since come to the conclusion that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring...
...Recent statistics indicate that bartenders share the top rung of the mortality ladder with the analysts . . . Both are dealing constantly with the frailties of human nature and are witness daily to hostility in naked form, but are forced to restrain themselves . . . from taking issue . . . The incidence is low among manual workers, but the wives of laborers are more often affected than their husbands. The difference may be due to budget or family problems...
Died. Norman ("Uncle Normie") Ross, 57, Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...
There were also some questionable "shop practices," said Solomon, such as the Willow Run workers' habit of making "manual changes" in time cards to show credit for time not actually worked. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, who drops his Rs in New England fashion, asked to have "shop practices" spelled. Explained he: "There are differences in pronunciation in different parts of the country...
...that a most flourishing state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments." A little later he got a message to call Operator 25. Shouldn't the quotation read, she asked politely, "that a most flourishing civil state may stand?" He found a state manual, looked it up, and called back to tell Operator 25 she was right. He asked how she had known. She explained that she lived near the State House and walked by it almost daily...