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...came close to glory by tying for second money in the 1920 U.S. Open. Better known as a Texas golf teacher, Burke Sr. died in 1942, failed to see his own son crowd Pro Jimmy Demaret for the honor of being old Jack Burke's most illustrious pupil. Young Jack literally carried on where the elder Burke left off. He qualified for the U.S. Open in 1939-and his father failed to do so for the first time in 25 years...
...started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know the facts of life. First there are fish, then come monkeys, and then little girls. Mother will tell you the rest...
...Left intact a New Jersey law which requires the daily reading of at least five verses from the Old Testament in public schools, permits the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, and allows any pupil to walk out of either if he does not want to participate. The Court (by a 6-3 decision) held the New Jersey case raised no federal or constitutional question. Dissenting Justices: Douglas, Reed and Burton...
...tendencies. He told his classes that Germany lost the war because Jews sabotaged the production of "new secret weapons." Yet he managed to wangle an appointment to the "school of democracy," run by the British Foreign Office at Wilton Park near London, for promising Germans. He was an apt pupil in the six-week course, but after he got back he sounded more than ever like an unrepentant Nazi. He was fired from his teaching job for "political indiscretions." Then he got into politics...
...pupil of famed Pianist-Composer Eugene d'Albert, Fischer made his home in Berlin until 1943, when he moved to a small house on Switzerland's Lake Lucerne. Now, when he is not touring Western Europe, he spends his time there gardening or painting. A warm, genial man, he tells visitors: "You don't have to praise the pictures you see here. They are not masterpieces. I painted them myself...