Word: sawyerism
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Children would rather read Tom Sawyer than The Rover Boys any day, if they had the choice. Miss Phyllis R. Fenner is sure of it, and she ought to know. For nearly 20 years tweedy, witty little Miss Fenner has presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
Miss Fenner long ago gave up trying to explain to her youngsters why Tom Sawyer is a good book and Tom Swift not. She just makes the good books sound interesting so that the kids start reading them. To introduce Uncle Tom's Cabin, she tells her children that it started a war. When a seven-year-old demands "a good murder mystery," Miss Fenner suggests Freddy the Detective: it generally turns out to be just what he wanted, though it has no murders and Freddy is only a pig. Titles, says Miss Fenner, are important...
...Long Christmas-Ruth Sawyer...
...publisher respectively of a magazine and a weekly paper-Scribner's Commentator and The Herald-which six months ago moved into their town from far-off Manhattan (TIME, May 26). The two publications settled down in a remodeled two-story building that used to be the old Sawyer Blacksmith Shop, to spread isolationist propaganda, but the townsfolk grew more & more puzzled...
...There ain't agoing to be no core," said Tom Sawyer, but he was 80 years ahead of the times. The first coreless, seedless apples known to science were discovered only last year. Weighing a plump quarter-pound each, they grow on a freak tree in Mrs. Libbie Wilcox's backyard in Huntington Park, Calif...