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...economics "too tough" for high-school minds, providing it is made "real and exciting." What is needed, says Funston, is more required courses and more and better teachers. As an example of what can be done, Funston cited the twelfth-grade teacher in New York's Nyack High School who collected 50? from each pupil to form an investment pool. Together the class conducted an enthusiastic search for the right company in which to invest their $18, finally bought one share of American Zinc (price last week: $15), avidly followed the market fortunes of "their" company all year-learning...
...Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: The Teahouse of the August Moon with Burgess Meredith...
...Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: Margaret Truman stars (but does not sing) in The Happy Time...
...Search of Self. Hopper's search for self has been long, arduous and undeviating. It began in the town of Nyack, N.Y.. up the Hudson River from Manhattan. There he was a bookish, gawky, well-bred boy-the son of a scholarly and unbusinesslike merchant-who built his own sailboat at the age of twelve. Five years later he enrolled in Robert Henri's art school on Manhattan's 57th Street. Henri was the presiding genius of an American art movement sneeringly dubbed the "Ash Can School." Instead of the vapid, idealistic studio pictures then...
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