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Ever since she was "in the primer," honey-blonde Mattie Lou Pollard, 14, has gone to the same one-room schoolhouse near Thomaston, Ga. Her teacher at Sunnyside School had work on her hands, taking care of 34 boys & girls, eight grades and all subjects. But somehow the teacher, Mrs...
Until last week, the once-bright Seattle Star (circ. 67,000) had spent most of its 48 years flickering as fitfully as a moist match. Started in gold-rush days by the late, lusty E. W. Scripps, it grew up as a crusading, loud-mouthed friend of the people, was...
But in the fumbling hands of Scripps's grandsons, Ed and Jim (it was never a part of the Scripps-Howard chain), the Star became the third daily in a town whose advertisers really needed only two. In hand-to-mouth depression days, its underpaid editors* never knew how...
* According to a favorite Star story, the Scripps boys learned that a city editor's salary had been raised from $22.70 a week to $25, and sternly directed that "the central office hereafter shall review all increases in the higher brackets."
The Amazons. From the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., Dr. Carl Hubbs reported on a small fish called Molliensia formosa. It is a native of Mexico with an odd family tree.