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Professional educators never tire of talking about the ideal teacher. Few have bothered to consult the object of the object of their talk, i.e., the schoolchildren. But one has: Dr. Paul Witty of Northwestern University, originator and judge of the annual "Best Teacher" contest sponsored by the Quiz Kids radio show. For five years, he has been poring over letters from children about their teachers. Last week, after reading the 90,000th, he told teachers at Northwestern's summer school just what the youngsters think about them...
...soft voice-and the quick coordination of hand and eye which can pull a .45 out of its holster while another man's gun is still on the way up to his hip. Ringo is the "Biggest Gun in the West," attracting crowds of admirers ranging up from schoolchildren to bartenders; he also attracts a collection of youths with poor complexions and fancy cartridge belts--each hunting the fame of shooting down the Biggest...
...dried eggs (88 million lbs.) that U.S. bakers would need for the next eight years, enough butter (99 million lbs.) for the baking of 495 million cakes, and enough powdered milk (316 million lbs.) to irrigate the Wheaties of all New York City's schoolchildren for several years to come. There were also small mountains of cheese, soybeans, tobacco, dried fruit and peas, rosin, cottonseed meal and other products which no one would buy and the Government could hardly give away-more than $2 billion worth in all, and more coming in every...
...than Oscar Ivanisse-vich, 45, onetime Argentine Ambassador to the U.S. As a surgeon he had removed the appendixes of both President and Señora Perón. As a poet he had composed the official party march, Peronista Boys. As Minister of Education, he distributed to his schoolchildren a saccharine pamphlet on Evita, "The Good Fairy of Argentina." Every morning on entering his office he bowed low to his patrons' pictures on the wall...
Following Man. Everywhere there were the high-school bands, swarms of schoolchildren. In little towns where a President had never been seen, crowds were often bigger than the population. A large man with a speckled mustache appeared among them, listening intently. Reporters quickly spotted him. He was Vic Johnston, a hireling of the G.O.P. National Committee, sent to keep tabs on Truman. Johnston had chartered a private plane, was waiting on the platform at every major stop, issuing depreciatory statements. Truman was amused, genially invited him aboard. Johnston sheepishly declined...