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...mammoth public school system hires 13,000 teachers, educates 460,000 pupils at a yearly cost of $71,000,000. Few U. S. educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor...
Colleagues who had played with him for years were amazed at Giese's facility, the way his big hand moved crab-fashion over the keyboard, producing harmonics and arpeggios with seemingly little effort. Most bull fiddlers stand up to their instruments. Waldemar Giese has a specially designed stool with a swivel seat and a foot rest (see cut) which give him support...
Idea for a stool came to him five years ago when he was given a concerto by Composer Antonio Scontrino who made such technical demands that few double-bass players have dared to wrestle with it. Waldemar Giese was not to be daunted...
...labour unions, people who inform, on the activities of their fellow workers are known as "stool pigeons" and "rats". We wonder whether Harvard students, who have not yet had much acquaintance with such people, will recognize John J. Reidy and his fellow editors for what they are. We know that Benny Goodman and William Gouldston, the thugs of the Boston Red Squad, will see kindred souls in the "Crimson" sanctum...
...chairman is Adrian Hoffman Larkin, executor of the Rogers' estate. Active head is President Carl Bucholtz, a heavy, thick-set baldish bachelor who makes his home in Norfolk's old Monticello Hotel. A graduate of Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri Pacific and Erie, he often eats perched on a stool in the hotel's coffee shop, is rated a good judge of fine whiskeys, has never been photographed, wastebaskets all inquiries from Who's Who, which does not list...