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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Betty Lou Pinkus, head majorette of the Indiana State Normal College, commented last night, "It's just a wonderful idea for Radcliffe coeds to lead Harvard cheers. I don't wonder that cheerleading is in such a bad way at Harvard if all they have is a bunch of boys...
...nothing of a child prodigy," Tebaldi once said, in a dimpled dig at the competition. "I was born with very normal cries-different from one of my celebrated colleagues, whose very first cries were musical and admirable." Tebaldi's first raucously normal cries sounded 36 years ago, in the fishing town of Pesaro on Italy's Adriatic coast. Renata's father, Teobaldo Tebaldi, was a theater-orchestra cellist of dashing good looks. His wife, Giuseppina, six years older than he and a former volunteer nurse, was an iron-willed woman. When Renata was only three months...
...Camas Prairie Railroad, packed his family off to a log cabin on an abandoned gold-mining claim in the isolated, rugged Salmon River Canyon, 80 miles from the nearest high school, eight miles by rubber raft from the nearest road. There Reho Wolfe, who once attended a normal school, set up a school-within-a-home, arranged for texts, lessons and tests through a correspondence course. Wolfe, a high school graduate, who has had music training, continued his job in Lewiston, commuted to the cabin on weekends, when he gave the children their music lessons. Between schooling and chores...
...annual "mobility index," the Census Bureau reported last week that during the twelve months ending last March, recession or no, a normal one-fifth (19.8%) of the population (i.e., 33 million) had changed homes. Score for the more mobile Western states...
...hard hit by unemployment, repossessions (especially of autos) and delinquencies on installment payments naturally rose. But even they were not alarming. In Detroit, businessmen reported a "definite upsurge" in repossessions and mortgage foreclosures. In Worcester, Mass., where non-farm unemployment reached 10%, loan companies reported repossessions up from a normal .5% to nearly 2%. In Gary, Ind., dependent on steel, auto repossessions rose from five...