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Other Faculty members felt that the "fine art of penmanship" might be seriously imperiled if typing were allowed
...blonde. Pig-tailed Patty McCormack has beautiful manners, a sweetly sensitive mother (Nancy Kelly) and a doting father (William Hopper). But accidents happen to the people around her. There was the nice old lady who fell down a flight of stairs-and the little classmate who won a penmanship medal Patty wanted, and then was found mysteriously drowned at a school picnic. Patty was the last to see either of them alive...
Nancy Kelly is troubled by these occurrences. When she finds the penmanship medal hidden in Patty's drawer, suspicion grows sharper, and she wrings a confession from Patty in a shattering crossexamination. Nor do the revelations come singly. Nancy has long had doubts about her paternity, and now her middle-class world collapses as she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderer who had fled justice. Even worse, she must face these mountainous horrors alone, since her husband has been called out of town...
...since won the support of doctors, teachers and psychologists for his success in clearing up mental disturbances in children by changing their handwriting. Last week he was in the Paris suburb of Levallois, putting 28 pupils through their paces in what seemed to be an ordinary class in penmanship. But whether he told a pupil to keep on making long strings of , or to concentrate on such rounded letters as a, b, and g, he always had his reasons. At 47, Raymond Trillat is known in Paris school circles by a high-sounding and eminently respectable title: grapho-therapist...
...Penmanship. In Youngstown, Ohio, awaiting trial on two counts of forgery, Lorene Montgomery gave city detectives a demonstration of her craft, wrote two clearly legible signatures at once while holding one fountain pen in her mouth, another in the crook...