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...Bureau's admiration for Partridge is reciprocated. He would "never go against the Weather Bureau," but once in a long while he does blue-pencil official forecasts that strike him as debatable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prophet | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...went on, I started to think differently. My parents were amazed I could be so generous and thoughtful." In another school, a little girl who had been fiercely anti-Japanese wrote a theme on tolerance. "If a Japanese came to my school," she said, "and asked me for a pencil, I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pixleyism | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...This last minute stuff is for Freshmen. Or birds. Examinations were so unfair because you only had the night before to review. Well, next term I'll be different, Vag thought. I'll fool them and do the reading ahead of time. Way ahead of time, he ran his pencil back and forth across the page until he had nicely furrowed one paragraph. He scratched his car with the eraser and looked at his watch. Right where I should be. He skipped the next thirty pages, to give himself a half-hour break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

Getting up, he circled the calendar once again, then flipped forward to the may page and the gleaming red-head. Ignoring her, Vag leaned forward to write "time to start review" in the May 2nd square. Trying to write "review," he dropped his pencil down behind the desk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

...Stand up and relax, the exam isn't tomorrow." His roommate banged into the room, articulating something about a new time for Vag's section. Vag tossed his pencil behind the desk again and noosed up his tie. "Let's go get drunk," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

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