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...Lawn, one school is so crowded that it has even considered a triple shift, with first-graders coming from. 5 to 9 in the evening. Though Northbrook has managed to build one new ten-room school, it does not have enough money left over to equip or furnish it. Last year Palatine found itself in an even more embarrassing position: without enough money to pay its teachers, it had to resort to a sort of scrip that had not been used since the great Depression...
...Folksy Touch. As one of some 111,000 U.S. radio "hams" (his call letters: W9UG), Turner operates a mass-production listening post in a barn next to his suburban Northbrook home. With the help of a technician, three 35-foot directional antenna masts, eleven short-wave receivers (six are permanently tuned to catch Moscow, London, Paris, Seoul, Buenos Aires and Melbourne) and three tape recorders, he collects most of the short-wave signals aimed...
Though this six-foot, bearded, spinsterish Englishman never married, he was fortunate in the young men on whom he sometimes girlishly innocent crushes. Frank Lushington became an important judge. Chichester Fortescue (Lear liked to write his name "40scue") became Lord Carlingford. Thomas George Baring became the Earl of Northbrook and Viceroy of India. Evelyn Baring became the Earl of Cromer, the "Maker of Modern Egypt." To these playful satraps of the expanding British Empire, Lear liked to write such pre-Joycean letters as this one to Evelyn Baring...