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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine. Last week, like 100 other middle-aging student teachers, Lyons was well launched in a startlingly successful effort to help beat Britain's shortage of 10,000 teachers. The scheme: Britain's first mixed adult teachers training college, brainchild of white-haired George Taylor, head of state schools in Leeds...
Died. Aaron Sapiro, 75, fiery lawyer from San Francisco, who promoted cooperatives in state after state, sued Henry Ford in 1927 for libeling the Jewish religion in his weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and settled for about $80,000, later became involved with Chicago gangsters; in Los Angeles...
Died. John Randolph Neal, 83, who precipitated the Dayton, Tenn. "monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...
Soft Cell. In Columbia, S.C., About Face, the newspaper published by the state penitentiary, ran a want ad: "Reporter for fast-growing biweekly in exclusive suburban area on historic Congaree River. No experience needed; will train for the specialized needs of the community; not much to work with, very little compensation, but there is a great deal of security attached...
...enhelicoptered.) All en joyed the services of the finest available morticians and a staff of makeup artists who can hold their own with any in Hollywood. Members of all creeds were welcomed, even atheists, but Negroes and Chinese were regretfully refused (the restriction was nullified this year by California state...