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...their Royal Family's teatime conversation. The program was unrehearsed. King, Queen and Royal Princesses were just their normal selves. Even the coughs of five-year-old Princess Benedikte and of Anne-Marie, 2½, both recovering from whooping cough, were clearly heard by Denmark's schoolchildren...
...Every Perch. Washington, which months ago had abandoned Harry Truman to the Dewey landslide, now pulled itself together fast. It was set to stage one of the biggest of its conquering heroes' welcomes. Government workers and schoolchildren were let out for the event; hours before the President's train arrived, every perch and post on the hero's highway of Pennsylvania Avenue was taken. Police estimated the crowd...
...Atlanta, during a demonstration to show schoolchildren what to do in case of fire, seven firemen were overcome by smoke. In Clarkston, Wash., Golf Professional Joe Durgan, showing Pupil Howard Melcher how to swing a golf club, shot his first hole...
About half the 2,947,000 Catholic schoolchildren in the country go to parochial schools. In the last 20 years there has been a large and significant increase at the high-school level. In 1930 the Catholics taught 241,869 boys & girls between ninth and twelfth grade. The figure is now nearly 490,000-more than double. Last week the principal of Stepinac High, short, amiable Father Joseph C. Krug, explained why Catholics have striven so hard for this increase. Said...
...Orange never forces his services on anyone). One of her young advisers said recently: "She hoped too much. She has been disappointed too much." This week, at 68, after half a century of rule, she leaves the throne in favor of her sturdy daughter, 39-year-old Juliana. Schoolchildren were singing a new song in Wilhelmina's honor...