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...taught Ed Gardner English I and English II. The records revived her memory. He had been a poor student, averaging a measly 70 to 75. He flunked his third term grammar, had to take it again. Mary Riblet, deciding it was time to rap her old pupil's knuckles, stomped off to a Manhattan law office...
That's hoisting a man on his own wisecrack, and properly. But I would like to straighten the quote and explain the origin. When the late, and I believe great newspaperman, Arthur Brisbane, took over the Mirror to haul it out of the red ... I was his pupil and aide. He once wrote me something he said someone had told him. That's as far as I can trace the genealogy of the quote; but it still makes pretty good advice for a young newspaperman or a young politician...
Next day 100 students and three teachers defied the Simoni lockout by reopening two schools. Said a pupil: "It is the will of the students. . . . This is the new democratic sort of school...
Hulking Chet Bowles leaned back in his chair and listened patiently. Then, calmly, like a teacher going over a lesson with a backward pupil, he replied: "But, Senator, you know the farmer is doing all right. When have farm markets been so good? Or prices so high? Or mortgages...
...bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...