Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood last week, the President's daughter also met the press. Her omnipresent teacher, Mrs. Margaret Strickler, a bosomy, flop-hatted kind of Madame Svengali, was hovering near by. When reporters asked Margaret about one selection on her program, La Fauvette avec ses Petits from Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Mrs. Strickler muscled in: "Galli-Curci was the only other one I've heard sing it. I might say that her voice was very similar, too." Margaret laughed it off: "That will be enough of that...
There was no doubt that Margaret Truman hau a rather charming voice, but one far better suited to the drawing room than to the concert hall. Perhaps it might go over on the air. Before last week's concert, Teacher Strickler had a conversation on that possibility, according to Hollywood's Daily Variety: an advertising agency and Margaret were dickering over a radio appearance. Said Mrs. Strickler indignantly: "Don't forget she is the President's daughter." Snapped the adman: "Why do you think I'm offering...
...debunkers gone too far? What if the generation after next grew up without ever hearing about John Smith and Pocahontas or even George Washington and the cherry tree? The possibility bothered Richard E. Thursfield, who used to be a history teacher and now teaches "education" at Johns Hopkins. Last week, in an essay in The Study and Teaching of American History (The National Council for the Social Studies; $2.50), Thursfield called for a modern Bulfinch to write an American Age of Fable...
...American children should know those fascinating historical myths and legends that have become a part of American folklore. . . . Some of these myths stimulate affection for our country, or an appreciation of its leaders or institutions. Unfortunately, there has been a growing tendency for the history textbook and the history teacher to omit . . . legends in the classroom...
Rhythm Antics. This year, as he celebrates his soth anniversary in show business, Fred Waring's big enthusiasm is his new career as a teacher. For a long time he and his top musicians have trooped around the country to hold classes in the Waring technique, especially as it fits choral singing. Waring, who thinks his own chorus is the best on the air, complains that he "can't understand what any other chorus in radio is singing...