Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacationing in Fort Worth to get away from it all, Louisiana's ailing Democratic Governor Earl K. Long, 63, obstinately ignored his grievous state of health (a continuing mental crackup, failing heart, aftereffects of a mild stroke), declared that he is as knowledgeable as all his doctors and psychiatrists put together, "dis-hired" the whole passel of them. In the Will Rogers suite of the Hotel Texas next day, in rumpled drawers and sports shirt, Long received Methodist Parson G. W. French Jr., president of the city's General Ministers Association. After Long had rambled...
Toward week's end, not getting an expected invitation to harangue the Texas state legislature, Ole Earl headed for El Paso and the night life of Juarez, just across the Mexican border. He bounced back fast to foray north into New Mexico, where at Ruidoso Downs race track he plunked down a horse-choking roll of at least $12,000 on several races, later allowed: "Ah think Ah made a couple hundred dollars...
...hunt for jobs in business-small business. Eager second-year students put up $15 apiece to help pay the expenses of six classmates, whom they dispatched during the Christmas holiday on prospecting tours of California, the Middle West, the Southwest, the New York City area, upper New York State and southern New England...
...well-heeled, new suburban town of Bellevue, Wash. (pop. 12,500), which lies just across Lake Washington from the skyscrapers of Seattle, George Brain has done a notable job of making democratic education flexible enough to give every youngster a chance at a good education. Taking over as the state's youngest superintendent six years ago, Brain proceeded, on the basis of a comprehensive and deep-delving planning survey, to put together a $45 million system of eleven elementary, three junior high and two senior high schools in a community that was little more than a little-red-schoolhouse...
...attended Central Washington College and later taught after serving in the Marines as a World War II Japanese-language officer. Before saying yes to Baltimore, he passed up an offer to head Pittsburgh's public school system. Early this year he traveled through Western Europe with a State Department-sponsored educational leaders' seminar. Says George Brain: "European and American education seem to be moving closer together in purpose and objectives. Europe is broadening the opportunity for education to more and more children. America, which has had a quantity system, now aims more at quality...