Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas could not precisely say that he had been a relatively safe civilian. He had, in fact, been far from safe in Buchenwald a good bit of the time, and before that he had been known to the Gestapo, under the alias of Shelley, as one of the most dangerous British agents in Europe, a kingpin in the intricate machinery of French resistance...
Lawyer Allen Murray Myers, new in the neighborhood, walked into P.S. 19 last September to register his nine-year-old daughter Shelley for the fall term. He was, he recalls, "shocked to tears." He promptly told New York City's board of education that he "would rot in jail myself first . . . before I would send my only child to that dump." Myers and his wife, who holds a New York state teacher's certificate, began tutoring Shelley at home in her prescribed subjects. Shelley's five hours of "classes" are held on every day that...
...board of education is not totally unsympathetic about the Myers' little rebellion. Officials offered to let Shelley attend any of three newer schools, but the nearest was more than three traffic-cluttered miles away from their apartment. The Myers said no. Last week the inevitable showdown began. Haled into domestic relations court for violating the compulsory-education law, Attorney Myers outlined his test case. Said he: "We want to determine whether the . . . board . . . has a legal right to force parents to send their children to filthy, insanitary, crumbling schoolhouses that are a physical and mental hazard...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Shelley Winters in Phone Call from a Stranger...
Wrote Exhibitor Frank E. Sabin, from Eureka, Mont. (pop. 929): "[A Place in the Sun is] definitely not classed as entertainment by my patrons. A sordid sort of thing all through. [Montgomery] Clift and [Shelley] Winters just moped around for the first 80 minutes-then he drowned her and the story whipped up. His march to the electric chair was the windup of the thing. Jolly, what...