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...evidently agrees, for he is paying Ted about $110,000 this season-the highest salary in baseball history. Like the rest of Boston, Yawkey counts on Ted and such other veterans as Shortstop Vernon Stephens, Third Baseman Johnny Pesky, Second Baseman Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio to sew up the pennant for the Sox this year...
...bank from fifth grade on, are marked for proficiency in keeping track of where the money goes. Dr. Templin has no patience with parents who prefer their daughters to "marry a white-collar moron instead of an intelligent well-paid artisan." Homemaking has first priority; girls begin learning to sew in the third grade, to cook in the fifth. "I don't see how any boy has the nerve to get married today on what the average girl expects," says Dr. Templin. "A large number of our appalling divorces result from the wife's failure in homemaking...
...initial phases of the experiment, two police twin-engine planes will carry 100 pounds of dry ice pellets and sew them among rain-bearing clouds to set up a chain reaction bringing rain. Howell stated that he made no promises of snecess...
...chudo-the middle way," explained a palace confidant, "neither love match nor arranged marriage." Pretty, 20-year-old Princess Kazuko had begun preparing for marriage two years ago by learning to cook, sew and sweep floors in the home of one of the Emperor's former chamberlains (see cut). The imperial family soon afterward settled on bespectacled Takatsukasa, cousin of the Empress Dowager, as a likely husband, provided both youngsters were willing...
Places in the World. Most of her victories were small ones: teaching a mongoloid boy (with a three-year-old's intelligence) to plow a straight furrow; coaxing a few words from a six-year-old who had never spoken; teaching a girl to sew a straight hem or weave a towel. But she also fought for places in the outside world for students she felt were ready, every year sent 15 or 20 out to earn their own way. During World War II she had the satisfaction of seeing a hundred of her "boys" accepted for service...