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Automatic Transference." Perhaps unsurprisingly, the system spurs children to gobble up I.T.A. books at a phenomenal rate. "Within a month my children refused to go out to play," says an awed teacher in Oldham, where one five-year-old read more than 200 books in his first year. In the U.S., where about 3,000 children are using the method, Lehigh University has 600 first-graders reading at up to third-grade level. Significantly, the British also find that I.T.A. works seeming miracles with backward children. One group of slow seven-year-olds, who had been unable to read more...
...Frances Oldham Kelsey, Federal Food and Drug Administration medical officer, and heroine of the thalidomide drug tragedy Sc.D...
Every grateful American should acclaim Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey Woman of the Year...
...only time in his life he showed bitterness in public, boasting in a preface that the book was a "cheap idea" written only for money. But the money came, and when it was gone Faulkner had his choice of temporary film jobs. Married by now to Mississippian Estelle Oldham, he settled down to what would be his life for 30 years-quiet stretches in Oxford interrupted by occasional forays to the Hollywood money-orchard (he conserved money in odd ways, perhaps to put off visits to California; often he mailed his personal letters in old business-reply envelopes with...
...varsity swimming team tackles one of its toughest opponents of the season this afternoon at Annapolis. Navy lost only Guthrie, Norfleet, and Oldham from the squad that beat Yale last year, and gained a highly touted sprinter from last year's freshmen. But the Crimson was not hurt much by graduation either, and most of the swimmers who figured in last year's victory over the Middles are back to try again this season...