Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before the mid-term algebra exams. Teacher Margaret Jokiel, a pretty blonde of 24, went off to a concert, to relax before the big day. She left her mother alone in the parlor. A little after 9, the phone rang...
...Margaret there, a small soprano voice asked. Mrs. Jokiel said no. "Well," said the voice, "if she doesn't pass everyone in math tomorrow, she'll soon be pushing up daisies." Mrs. Jokiel, a teacher herself, thought the call was probably a joke. But a few minutes later, gunfire echoed through the quiet Brooklyn street. Bullets zinged through windows, smacked into walls. When the police arrived, they counted 24 bullet holes in the Jokiel house. Neighbors said the shots had come from a darkened car cruising slowly past the house...
Next day, two detectives escorted Teacher Margaret Jokiel to Fort Hamilton High School. She had no idea which of her 165 pupils could have wanted to shoot at her ("They all seem O.K. to me"). After the math exam, the detectives began questioning the kids. One boy could only stammer his answers. Questioned further, he admitted that he had not signed his own name to his test paper: he was taking the examination for a friend...
...Hamilton students), he set out in a stolen car that was loaded with rifles and ammunition he had stolen earlier from a Coney Island shooting gallery. Everything went according to plan. A little after 9 one boy, disguising his voice to sound like a girl's, had phoned Teacher Jokiel. A few minutes later the others drove past the Jokiel house. "Shoot!" Anthony ordered them. "Show you're not chickens." When the shooting was over, the boys abandoned the stolen car, returned to the ice-cream store for more sodas...
...secret of her durability as a star (1909-30): "I didn't force my voice. I had sense enough not to touch the capital, only the income . . ." For the past eleven years she has been living quietly in an ornate Los Angeles mansion with her husband, Singing Teacher Homer Samuels, and plans to move to a new country home near San Diego when it is finished. She has taken up painting. What does she think of opera today? "Music is an art," she says. "It's not a yelling business, or a ballyhoo business...