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...High School on West 93rd Street, no one bothered to ask him why he had come. The evening boxing class-an effort to keep potential delinquents off the streets-was in full swing. Physical Education Teacher James O'Tarrell. 28, simply assumed that the boy was just another pupil. Then the time came for the class to roll up the mats and leave. Instead of helping with the work, the boy stood on the sidelines and jeered...
While at the College, the artist was a pupil of Professor Arthur Pope. After graduating, he continued his studies of painting and graphic art in Europe and Mexico. He is now associate professor of Art at Vassar College...
Bewildered Pupil. The truth was that the Kremlin, with or without lying help from the late Beria, had known exactly what Tito was up to all these years. Born in Yugoslavia, trained in Yugoslavia, admired and hated in Yugoslavia, Tito owed the Russians little except a postgraduate schooling in Marxist dogma and Communist deceit. He had run his own war with little help or advice; he planned to run his own peace...
...most elementary schools in all countries do, a French school in Cannes drummed up an essay project on the subject: "What I want to be when I grow up." Most significant paper was turned in by Pupil Pierre Thorez, 10, son of France's ailing, villa-dwelling Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. Wrote Pierre: "I want to become an admiral and command a fleet of battleships ... I would review the sailors while listening to music played by naval bands. I would wear feathers in my ceremonial hat and gold braid." It all sounded quite a bourgeois concept of an admiral...
...most any conference of U.S. educators these days, the topic was bound to come up at the regional meeting of the National Education Association in Denver: What can a teacher do to help that most neglected of schoolchildren, the bright and eager pupil? Last week a genial and tireless public-school man named Eldred Harrington gave an answer that left his Denver audience astounded. "We didn't know what to make of the fellow," said one teacher, "but he certainly was interesting...