Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clean-living folk hero, the Ranger has been applauded by Boy Scout councils, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, parent-teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there...
...whether added instruction would be enough to correct L.A.'s wretched showing. Said Board Member LeRoy Edwards: "It is hard to believe that thousands of our pupils are mentally retarded. There must be something wrong with the way they are being taught." To many an L.A. parent, that was putting it mildly...
Most of Brown's chapters whose national affiliates have discriminatory clauses have gone on record in opposition to them, but none has formally broken with its parent body. There are no Negro members in any fraternity and, except in the single Jewish fraternity, relatively few Jews...
...doting parent himself, Luther tests new records on his own children, Melody, 5, and Warren, 3. Says he: "If they say 'again' three times...
...Blight. Secretly, Henry Adams yearned to be an improper Bostonian. He dragged the ball & chain of his birth with him wherever he went, but he always recognized it for the burden it was. "Boston is a curious place. Its business in life is to breed and to educate. The parent lives for his children; the child, when educated himself, becomes a parent, or becomes an educator, or is both . . . Nothing ever comes of it all. There is no society worth the name, no wit, no intellectual energy . . . Everything is respectable, and nothing amusing. There are no outlaws. There...