Word: spock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors boasted: "Although these three books were written by Shulman at the age of eight, critics have pointed out that they show the insight and penetration of a man of nine." Now Humorist Shulman, 40, has advanced into the double-digit years. But his characters still uniformly resemble the Spock troops...
...oddest gandy-dancer on the railroads in Manitoba during the summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock, who owned a resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become...
Medical Student Spock was one of thousands of young men who have invaded Canada's bush country in the last 60 years as faculty members of a unique institution called Frontier College. Its campus stretches 3,000 miles from the Yukon to Labrador; its most avid students are immigrant laborers who hunger to learn English in order to become Canadian citizens. Last week the Toronto-based school dispatched the first of this summer's 75 instructors-most of them greenhorn college students-to take grueling jobs in remote mines, lumber camps, construction and railroad gangs. "They arrive...
...part from the Canadian government. But since 1899 it has taught more than 250,000 men-some of whom have taught a thing or two to the teachers. The Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, who learned about Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders?' He answered: 'Young man, I think you mean, "May I have some 18-inch spreaders...
Proud at becoming a grandfather for the first time, Cleveland Pediatrician Benjamin (Baby and Child Care) Spock, 55, noted that Daniel Wood Spock (8 Ibs. 5 oz.) has the long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...