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...fashioned drilling is part of the daily fare at Westside Preparatory School, a one-room schoolhouse founded by Teacher Marva Collins, 37, as an alternative to the local inner-city schools. For 14 years Collins had taught in the neighborhood elementary school, where false fire alarms were set off a dozen times a day, teachers came to school stoned, and "all we were doing was creating more welfare recipients," she says. When she fought to keep her students with her for two years in a row in order to drill them thoroughly in spelling and grammar, other teachers tagged...
Most of the eight Harvard students had never been South before. Marva Jones, a third-year student is, on the other hand, a veteran of civil rights works in Lowndes County and Anniston, Ala. She came down because she wanted to see what had been accomplished since then. "There has been change," she remarked. "When I was down here in '64 nobody spoke to us about getting Negroes to overcome their fear of voting. They weren't allowed to vote...
Colgate quarterback Ron Burton and halfback Marva Hubbard carried the ball on all but two plays gainst Cornell. The 160-pound Burton, unbelievably, carried the ball himself on all but three occasions in the second half...
...Married. Marva Trotter, 34, former wife of retired Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis; and Dr. Albert Lee Spaulding, 30, internal medicine specialist; in Chicago...
Divorced. Joe Louis, 34, world's heavyweight champion; by Marva Trotter Louis, 33, onetime Chicago stenographer; after twelve years of marriage (they were divorced in 1945, remarried a year later), two children; in Jojutla, Mexico...