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...Meals & Mopes. The domain he inherited includes five high schools, eleven junior high schools, 63 elementary schools, a special school for crippled children. It is a $40 million domain that comes alive each morning with the shouts and cries of 56,000 schoolchildren flooding through its classrooms. On the surface it is a casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle...
...life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
Rabbit-raisers, imitators, geographers, and their less exotie cousins no longer have to mope around the Yard hoping to find someone to practise...
...scrappy, slugging team. Critics say the Cards might have been the Yankees of the National League, if money-minded General Manager Branch Rickey, founder of the farm system, had not sold so many ($4,000,000 worth) of their promising farm products. Still, St. Louis has nothing to mope about. Manager Billy Southworth, a paternal oldtimer with infectious enthusiasm, has a green thumb for ripening green players. This year's Cardinals have six regulars batting over .300; Creepy Crespi, a rookie second-baseman who has made the infield click; Ernie White, a 24-year-old South Carolina southpaw...
...mope in the candy shop. Snapped Judge Mack irrelevantly: "You mean, oh, come ye back, ye days of yore, when you could put $3,000,000 in and filch back...