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...Bear to Pear. In determining a child's readiness to read, the teacher must make sure not only of his eye, but also of his ear. Thus, the pupil may be given a series of pictures and asked to circle the object that the teacher names. If he mistakes a comb for a cone or a bear for a pear, he is obviously on his way to mistaking "institute for "introduce." In another series of pictures, the teacher may try to put across certain abstract concepts. A pupil will be asked to draw a ball beside, under or above...
...Dunster House and North Andover, Mass., heads a list of four newly-appointed crew managers for next year. Ostherr will succeed Joe Harrison '56 as varsity heavy manager a year from this spring. Ralph A. Powers, Jr. '57 of Lowell House and New London, Conn., will follow William H. Pear, II '56 as varsity lightweight manager for the season...
...Ulla Jacobsson), who is only 17, dimples and looks away, but then she says, "For you I'm not bashful." They undress and run laughing and gasping into the icy shallows. The laughter dies on Goran's lips as he sees her standing there, pretty as a pear. "Kerstin!" he says. She turns toward hirn with a yielding look, and he takes her in his arms. "Goran," she murmurs dreamily. "Don't forget me!" Without a word he carries her to the shore, where they lie in a sun-spangled shade. "Kerstin," he asks gravely, apparently unaware...
Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Car men, with Dorothy Dandridge putting the torch to Bizet's babe, and Pear...
...name) was caught 70 feet down in an inhuman tug-of-war between the octopus, which tried to drag him down, and Burford, who tried to haul him up. Finally, at the risk of splitting Evans in two, Burford started the boat to pull Evans loose. Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop the [diver's] helmet, all eight tentacles about Evans' body." Burford slammed a pike pole through the creature's head and pulled Evans aboard. The great thing, Burford decided, is to avoid 1) panicking, 2) provoking...