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Dave Rysky went to Our Lady Gate of Heaven, an ancient Catholic grammar school with nuns who beat wrong-doers and sinners and then Chicago Vocational School; CVS where Chicago Bear linebacker Dick Butkus went; a 5,000 pupil vocational school with print shops, auto shops, welding shops. Dave took auto shop, always wanted to, ever since I first met him in June...
...students questioned, less than 2% ever turn to their teachers for advice in solving problems of any kind. What has gone wrong? Teachers said that they were too busy, and most students said that they preferred to solve their problems on their own. Observed one Tokyo daily: "The teacher-pupil ties that are so vitally important in the formation of the upcoming generation are at rock bottom...
...William H. Bonney-otherwise known as Billy the Kid. Dirty Little Billy, however, is the first to deal with Billy while he is still literally a kid, a punk adolescent just learning to shoot, to booze, to whore and to stay up past midnight. Billy is an eager pupil...
...village there: papermakers, dyers, weavers, calligraphers, lacquer masters and painters settled in it, with Koetsu presiding over them all. The collaborations that followed make it excruciatingly hard to determine which artist did what painting; Koetsu's style is almost indistinguishable from the early manner of his pupil Sotatsu...
...Pennsylvania championship. His college boards kept him out of Maryland and Notre Dame, so he headed south to Alabama and the ineluctable embrace of Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. No one has ever dominated the Bear, but Namath at least baited him to a draw. Bryant did suspend his errant pupil once for breaking training. On the other hand, Bryant's own mother would likely quail at the thought of slinging an affectionate arm over his shoulder and calling him "Bear"-a gesture Joe regularly indulged in. Namath won Bryant's sufferance by throwing...