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...Every morning I awake with an empty feeling, as if there had been a death in the family," says white-haired Floyd Rinker, veteran of 32 years of English teaching at Newton (Mass.) High School. What depresses Rinker is the generally sad state of the 90,000 English teachers in U.S. secondary schools-public, private and parochial...
...Rinker well knows that English teaching can be impossibly hard. The "normal" high school teaching load is 125 to 150 pupils a day. If a teacher assigns 125 pupils one 500-word essay a week, allowing 15 minutes apiece to correct them, he faces more than 30 hours of extra work. (One result is that some teachers assign no essays, and high schools are graduating students who never wrote a single composition in four years.) Nonetheless, Rinker thinks that the deeper problem is simply incompetence; few teachers, for example, read enough, and many cannot write with style and clarity...
...last week's meeting, C.E.E.B. also: ¶ Announced a significant commission on English, aimed at analyzing the gap between achievement in U.S. high schools and requirements in U.S. colleges. Headed by Floyd Rinker, English chairman at Newton (Mass.) High School, the new group is patterned on C.E.E.B.'s commission on mathematics...
During a three-day convention of G.E. dealers in Newark last July, said Rinker, he telephoned red-haired Nella Bogart, 32, who is on trial as the madam of a Manhattan vice ring. "I was requested by the sales manager," testified Rinker, "to ask Miss Bogart if she would come and bring a young lady with her for purposes of prostitution.'' When Nella and another girl, Pat D'Amico, 19, arrived, they registered at the hotel as mother and daughter, and got right to work. G.E.-Man Rinker picked up the tab for their suite-the customers...
Both Ad Manager Rinker and his boss, Sales Manager Murray, were summarily fired when the case broke. Fumed G.E.'s Garl Schlaick, general manager of the company's Hotpoint appliance sales division: "General Electric will not, now or ever, condone or tolerate such conduct." The 16 carloads? They have already been delivered and sold...