Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When all of the tag ends of this far-flung reporting job were in, Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor sat down to write the story. He had his facts and, when his story was done, Frankie Waldron, alias Eugene Dennis, was no longer such a mystery...
...succeeded only in "getting everyone angry and cutting my own political throat from ear to ear." The vote proved otherwise. By a vote of 49 to 31, eight Republicans helped 41 Democrats slap down John Bricker's non-segregation amendment. Among the eight Republicans was Ohio's senior Senator Robert Taft. After that, there was only one more major hurdle to take...
...Kyoto's Horikawa Senior High coeducation came last October. Now, of 2,531 pupils, 1,104 are girls. None had ever studied with boys before; they went to separate, inferior schools in line with the feudal principle that boys are superior beings. "At first I was bewildered and frightened," said Reiko Yasuda, a slight, pretty eleventh-grader, "but after I got used to it I found it a challenge to try to keep up with the boys." Another coed, Yoko Kira, added: "Coeducation is very enjoyable...
...Fushimi Senior High, Keishi Kanno, editor of the school paper, led a discussion of the new sex equality. "The girls," he charged, "are more otemba [tomboyish] and masculine than we expected." Both boys & girls were openly critical of Japan's traditional family system which gives the family head almost complete power over all members. "The system should be changed," argued Kanno, "for now a father can even tell his children whom to marry...
Claude Thornhill, the first "name" band to play at a commencement since 1940, has been signed up for the Senior Spread on June 20, Charles D. Baker '49, of the Class Day Committees announced last night...