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...Worthy Pupil. Korea was first on the agenda, but not first in the hearts of the delegates. The South Korean delegate proposed Syngman Rhee's plan for supervised elections, to be held in North Korea only, for the loo-odd seats kept vacant in the Republic of Korea assembly. North Korea just as predictably demanded, among other things, withdrawal of all foreign troops. As Dulles rose to endorse South Korea's plan, Chou scribbled notes, asked to speak as soon as Dulles sat down...
...your magazine are entirely uncorroborated. For instance: "At Manhattan's Haaren High . . . five fires were set in a single classroom in a recent week. Only two were reported by the teacher for fear his disciplinarian slip might be showing." . . . There were two fires, both set by one pupil. Prompt action was taken. The pupil was caught, he appeared in court and was placed on probation. Within the memory of the principal, no comparable incident has ever occurred at that school . . . "A teacher recently stopped a fight between two students. Later that day, he found his new car scratched...
Tired and overwrought, the composer falls asleep one day while administering a piano lesson to a rich man's child. He dreams that his pupil's beautiful mother (Martine Carol) is in love with him, and that he is a famous composer. Waking with a start, he hurries home, jumps into bed and starts to dream again...
Preparing for his debut as a song-and-dance man in a big benefit show, Sir Laurence Olivier studiously twirled a cane and practiced his footwork in a London gymnasium, where veteran musicomedy Hoofer Jack Buchanan pronounced the actor an apt but self-conscious pupil...
Died. Dr. Otto Hermann Diels, 78, retired German organic chemist who, with his ex-pupil, Dr. Kurt Alder, received the 1950 Nobel Prize for chemistry after developing the diene synthesis, a method of artificially producing complex chemical compounds (e.g., cortisone); in Kiel, Germany...