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Thomas G. Masaryk's faithful aide, never-tiring Dr. Eduard Benes, was the second-greatest intellectual influence on Jan's life-the father's pupil teaching the father's son. As Thomas Masaryk's Foreign Minister, and later when he became President himself, Dr. Benes encouraged Jan's wider western orientation; personally Benes was inclined to put all Czech eggs into the French basket...
...years ago nearly put Charlie out for the count, but after eight months in an iron lung he picked up fast and now plays clarinet as tirelessly as ever from a wheelchair. Pee Wee Russell and Frank Teschemacher represent his school of hot clarinet, and Charlie is an apt pupil. His record collection is one of the best in New England, and Charlie's home has for years been a regular stop for visiting jazz musicians, many of whom have cut discs in the Vinal living room on Charlie's recording machine...
Letter to a Hero (RKO-Pathe) is written by a small-town schoolteacher (played by Ann Dere) to an erstwhile pupil, a soldier who has just been decorated. While the soldier-whose face never appears-reads it, her voice speaks it. While she speaks, the camera wanders gently and perceptively among the people and places to which she refers-the classroom, the main street by day and by night, the church, the school bus, the soldier's home (a farm) and his parents, the war work of various auxiliaries, a Friday night dance at the High School, a parade...
...Even a bad head cold wouldn't have availed you. He really didn't smell bad on purpose. He was a dull normal, his mother probably a moron. When verbal warnings failed to beget the desired attar of roses, teacher moved him four seats from the nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against him. Ergo, he was against them. So he stabbed the leader of the class in the spine. ... A simple...
...more brothers & sisters a pupil had, the greater the tendency to cheat...