Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wondered whether it would make an education story for TIME. It did. Froslid reported about the school's 38-year history. its 78-year-old founder-director, Emma Tunnicliff, and its volunteer instructors who tried to help make ends meet by collecting old license plates to sell as scrap metal (TIME, Jan. 28). Since the story appeared, Boston newsmen have found their way to the school, donations by the hundreds have poured in from all over the U.S., and volunteer facultymen are winnowing the more remunerative offers for TV appearances. Last week Emma Tunnicliff said happily: "Thanks to TIME...
...provided by the government, later pays 35? for a hot lunch. Though addressed as Prince Charles, he must obey all the rules, keep silent during the meal, and clean his plate. "We never keep a pig bin," says one of his teachers. "The boys have to eat every scrap put in front of them...
Because its instruction, lunches and transportation are free, Mrs. Tunnicliff's school has never been out of financial trouble. Last week, in a poignant effort to raise money, its volunteer staff began a drive to collect old license plates that it hopes to sell for scrap. But somewhere, insists Mrs. Tunnicliff, the school will find the funds it needs-for the sake of the eleven-year-old with the body of a child of six, for the small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump...
...grueling whirlwind tour of 20 U.S. cities in six weeks. At 85, he conducted perhaps the finest performance (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony) of his career. When he finally withdrew to his Riverdale home, he still spent long hours in the living room listening to virtually every scrap" he ever recorded (RCA Victor engineers kept begging him to approve more of his performances for release). When he approved of a recorded passage, the right hand stirred in rhythm to the music, then the left hand signaled for expression, finally both arms moved in great sweeping gestures...
Just getting a crack at Sugar Ray was the toughest scrap of all. Jenson had to settle for 12½% of the gate, or $20.915. Robinson pocketed $78,190 of the gate receipts, plus $60,000 of the TV and radio income, of which Fullmer got none...