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...year 1952 to 1953, the U.S. Office of Education was able to give some figures as to the range of support U.S. citizens give to their schools. Among the largest cities (100,000 or more), expenditures per pupil ran from $133 in Memphis to $395 in Newark. Among the smallest cities (under 10,000), Bronxville, N.Y. took the prize with $675, while Batesville, Ark. trailed with...
...Washington correspondents, one of the nation's smallest publications is also one of the most important. Its name is Congressional Quarterly, and its circulation is a mere 3,000. But it is a gold-plated list. More than half the members of Congress subscribe to CQ; 282 top U.S. papers take it. Every week (despite its name) CQ goes out to more than 300 organizations, ranging from labor unions to the American Medical Association, which pay up to $1,000 a year for the service. They are willing to pay well because Congressional Quarterly provides the only authoritative weekly...
Results Are Something. Albright's brushes are the smallest obtainable. For really fine work he uses one lateral spine of one chicken feather, tied to a handle for him by a man who specializes in tying fishermen's flies. His first step, which may take years is to cover the canvas with a very detailed charcoal drawing. After fixing the charcoal with a spray, he begins applying thin glazes of oil color, sometimes spending weeks on a square inch. When I get sick to death of painting glass " he says "I paint wood for a while. Then when...
IMPUNITY JANE, by Rumer Godden (Viking; $2.50), boasts one of the smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
Steerage Class. In Milwaukee, after Mrs. Fannie Riley found him sleeping in a trunk in her attic and called police, Army Sergeant John J. Yess, unable to account for either the position or the imposition, complained: "This ship has the smallest berth I ever slept...