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...story goes back to a Los Angeles schoolroom where a flaxen haired little girl sat at her desk, busily writing and cheerfully ignoring the fact that she was supposed to be doing lessons. She was making a list of names, writing them down to see how they looked, whispering them softly to see how they sounded, trying to select a new name for herself...
Heroic in another fashion, for 70 nights of ten Kansas winters since 1929, Marshall H. Ensor has propped his books and notes against the homemade mike of his 1-kilowatt station W9BSP. From 7:30 to 8:30 he has broadcast to a shadowy schoolroom a lesson in how to operate an amateur radio station. By day he taught industrial arts at the Olathe, Kans. high school; by night, according to the proud statisticians of the American Radio Relay League Inc., he taught more people the essentials of radio than any engineering-school professor. Last year Ensor received his master...
THIS IS THE SCHOOLROOM-Nicholas Monsarrat-Knopf...
This Is the Schoolroom, in short, is one more of those novels in which a young man tells of his education, his quest for a meaning and a course in life. If the young man is intelligent enough or alive enough, such a story can have extraordinary power and significance. Since Marcus Hendrycks is not, his tale is rather a social document than a work of thought...
...rough-cut, reverent set of lyrics, they skimmed the Lincoln legend from hollow-log cradle to resurrection, not missing the Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which Abe's words "flashed home like singing bullets, Steve's jumped fence like frisky pullets." Liveliest lines: on an apocryphal schoolroom spelling bee in which Abe Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge headed opposing teams. The spelldown...