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Three generations of western Iowa farmers learned reading, writing and arithmetic at Otter Township's one-room Concord School. Next month, when schools all over Iowa reopen, Concord (which had only four pupils last term) will be closed. So will 1,700 other small Iowa schools, wiped out since 1941-and few Iowans will be sorry...
...acute shortage of teachers, and a $2 million-a-year state appropriation for school buses had done most to speed the merger of Iowa schools. But there are still 6,500 one-room schools in Iowa, 96,000 in the nation, mostly in the Midwest...
...this was highly gratifying to the Religious Drama Society, which has been operating on a shoestring from a one-room London office. Most pleased of all is the man directly responsible: Elliott Martin Browne, 46, the tall, gaunt director of R.D.S. since 1936. It was he who had prodded T. S. Eliot, poet and High Churchman, to write two of the most popular modern religious plays: The Rock and Murder in the Cathedral...
Some of the contestants went out on words they obviously knew, because of stage fright (one girl tripped on across). Indianapolis' entry, twelve-year-old William Frazer, wore a red-plaid "lucky" shirt, its pockets overflowing with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants...
...when many a Southerner strove to forget his shabbiness with genteel pretence. The Crump children often got no firecrackers for Christmas; they were urged instead to pop dried, inflated pig bladders saved from the autumn slaughtering. Their one-room school was never painted-elders murmured evasively that they were waiting for the nailheads to rust. But even as a skinny, redheaded boy, Ed Crump stared at the world with the discerning eyes of a realist...