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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under Miscellany of TIME, May 6, was an item headed "Scared" telling of a boy, age five, frightened by a dog and within six hrs. losing his hair. I gave this topic in Current Events and my teacher called me down before the whole class. I received no grade for the topic for she said it did not happen and was not possible. I told her it came from the magazine TIME, but it made no difference. Mother said I should write to you for the sake of my grade, hoping you could give me more information on the matter...
...Porte, Ind. Let Marian Shields's teacher, without abandoning healthy skepticism, hesitate to cry "impossible!" Henry Mates, aged 5, of Washington, D. C., did go bald (see cut). His hair did begin falling out soon after he had been scared by a fox terrier puppy. A doctor was called. Henry had had no illness, such as typhoid fever, which might have affected his hair. The doctor said, and other doctors have hesitated to contradict him, that scare and baldness were evidently cause and effect. Let Marian Shields's teacher not be dogmatic, not withhold Marian Shields...
...teacher, to get sympathy): "You don't know my father. He'll beat me with an iron chain, yes, sir! an iron chain, 'n after all I'm only a little...
...wrote last winter in Creative Art, "I do not know how to do it unless I speak of the life of these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty...
...alumnae and their parents gathered for dinner. Yale University's President James Rowland Angell and Steelman Charles M. Schwab were speakers. The news was that the Spence School, now no longer privately owned, has a new headmistress: Miss Helen Clarkson Miller, onetime associate principal and History of Art teacher. She served during the War as director of Training School for canteen workers, and is now on many educational committees, among them the International Relations Committee of World Federation of Educational Association. She is successor to Miss Charlotte. S. Baker, now president of the Board of Trustees, onetime principal. Spence...