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...fees ranging from $100 to $200 a year, group teachers generally offer two lessons a week, one with two or three students, the other with ten or twelve. Most groups use two or more pianos, interlace individual student workouts on the keys with duets or quartets to sharpen sight reading and harmony skills. "Group teaching is not 60 minutes sliced into ten-minute sections, one for each of six students," says Betty Belkin. "It takes planning, and you've got to know what you're going to do long before the group comes to the studio." Emulating Pace...
...local Y.M.C.A. He was a captain in 1948 when the Cincinnati civil service commission made a ruling which allowed him and 16 other young captains to take the competitive exams that would pick the successor to retiring Chief Eugene T. Weatherly, an old-style cop who used to sharpen his shooting eye by blazing away at the rats in his dingy office. Schrotel passed the exams with the record score of 99.33% and became Cincinnati...
Yesterday Coach Bruce Munro had the Crimson working on clearing patterns; the attack practiced precision passing and shooting. According to the coach. "We've got to sharpen up our playmaking. Our high scoring isn't necessarily a sign of superior teamwork. Some people think we're better than we have shown thus...
...audience will allow a playwright just enough "outrageous coincidence" to "sharpen the outline" of a play, Bentley said. They will permit him to exaggerate "about 10 per cent--after all, he is an artist...
...college and had been too shy to talk to on their first date. Yvonne teaches first grade in Cincinnati, which is almost more than her hero-worshiping pupils can bear. One child proudly uses Yvonne's full married name at every opportunity: "Mrs. Oscar Robertson, may I sharpen my pencil?" "Mrs. Oscar Robertson, may I go to the rest room?" When the Royals are in town, Robertson hunches over the kitchen table and meticulously helps Yvonne keep her school records, takes her dancing (he is accomplished in such steps as the "horse" and the "slop"), spins his records...