Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting up L.C.A., Satenstein took his cue from the Boy Scouts. If youngsters will work and hike and study to earn Scout merit badges, why can't they be induced to read for similar rewards? To each of its chapters, L.C.A. sends free buttons, pins, banners and certificates. After reading four books, a pupil gets a plastic membership button. Six more books bring a bronze-coated honor pin, and eight more bring the gold-plated life membership button. L.C.A. makes no attempt to dictate what books are to be read, lets local teachers and librarians improvise on the basic...
...fourth-through-eighth-graders in New Jersey's Caldwell Township school, half are now working for various L.C.A. merit buttons. Some members have become such avid readers that one mother complained: "I can't get my children to bed any more. They want to sit up and read...
Died. Andre Marty, 70, tough, skull-cracking old-line Stalinist, Comintern secretary (1935-43) and onetime No. 3 man in the French Communist hierarchy, who was read out of the party after he balked at Russia's 1952 peace offensive; in Toulouse, France. After Roughneck Marty caught the party's eye, he was elected in 1924 to the Chamber of Deputies (where he served 1924-32, 1936-39, 1946-55), during the next decade became notorious as a party hatchetman. He helped organize (1936) the International Brigade, won dubious recognition for his Spanish Civil War exploits from Novelist...
...Longfellow, a selection from her letters and journals, gives a few clues to Fanny's dim view of Longfellow's suit. For one thing, she already had a more interesting mind than his. She was well read and neither life nor people fooled her. At 19 she could look back uneasily on "childhood, innocence and ignorance, before the down is rubbed off and the skeleton in all things revealed, and that fiend Doubt become our fireside companion." A bit morbid, perhaps, but still more acute than anything young Henry had yet written. She could also be cattily tart...
...Longfellow is pre-eminently a woman's book, and the picture that slowly emerges of a thoroughly charming and civilized lady is one that most contemporary women might well envy. Life with Henry was not exciting, but it had its compensations. ''The Prof read and wrote and taught, and as his fame grew the Longfellows entertained most of the famous writers in flowering New England-Hawthorne, Lowell, Emerson. Fanny always saw them plain, just as she had once seen Henry. Emerson's fame could not keep her from writing: "Where has his humanity gone, I wonder...