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...illiterates will be registered. Home town authorities will assign each literate to his pupil. The Government will distribute ten million primers. A check-up will be made one year later...
...separation and alimony by his third wife, who claimed, in affidavits filed with the court, that on their tenth wedding anniversary he had asked for a divorce so he "might marry the woman who had been living with him as his mistress." The woman was identified as a onetime pupil of Untermeyer's. Mrs. Untermeyer charged that her husband had been receiving "vulgar" verse from his former pupil ever since. Mr. Untermeyer said that his new love had revived his poetic inspiration...
Anna was a more subversive influence than anyone knew. She read Uncle Tom's Cabin to the slaves. Her favorite pupil among the King's wives, Son Klim, signed her letters, "Harriet Beecher Stowe Son Klim." Once Anna found the wives bidding for an 18-months-old white baby girl, the child of a native woman and an English sailor. Anna bought both mother and child for $72 to save them from slavery...
...year (except for the preprimary and postgraduate years), Calvert provides a teaching manual, textbooks, tests, charts, maps, scrapbook, pads, pencils, ruler and other materials. For an additional $16 the pupil may send work in for criticism by regular Calvert teachers. The school gives certificates, neither seeks nor earns profit from its absentee students...
...Diamond's freedom on a murder charge. Dewey and Medalie admire each other's legal talents. John Foster Dulles, 56, a tall, stooped, bespectacled Wall Street lawyer and impeccable Presbyterian, whose life work has been advising people on international affairs. Tom Dewey, he says, is the aptest pupil he ever had. A Princeton graduate, he studied international law at the Sorbonne, was secretary to the Hague Peace Conference when only 19. He directed the legal aspects of much European financing after World War I, in 1927 worked out a financial-stabilization plan for Poland...