Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circuit (100-200 miles) the car doubles back, visits each hamlet ten times before the school year ends in June. This adds up to a rugged schedule for the seven teachers. But even with a top salary of $2,000 a year, the application list is long, the teacher turnover light...
...week long classes are held; then the teacher hands out enough homework to keep pupils busy for four or five weeks. The school car is hooked on to another train, rolls on to the next spur, stays a week, moves...
Something Ladylike. Pauline Betz has had a tennis racket in her hands almost every day ever since she was nine. Her mother, a gym teacher at Los Angeles' Jefferson High School, put it there. Pauline is convinced that her mother set her playing tennis "to get me off the streets and doing something more ladylike." She was a tree-climbing tomboy. Every night when her father came home, Pauline and her younger brother greeted him by walking down the street on their hands. Papa complained once: "I wish I could see those children right side up once...
...Steamroller. Young Daniel Fignolé, a 28-year-old Socialist ex-mathematics teacher with a magnetic voice and brooding eyes, sparked the barrel of hatred. He picked a humdrum black soldier as the poor man's presidential candidate, promised the blacks the houses, cars and mistresses of the elite. When he visited poor black quarters, hordes of men, women & children in various states of undress pressed about his car, climbed on to it, beat voodoo rhythms on the fenders, danced and tumbled in ecstasy, roared: "Vive Fignol...
Professor Matthiessen is a Harvard Teacher's Union executive. Miss Holman is a member of a Connecticut chapter of the Citizens' PAC. She has starred in numerous stage hits on Broadway and elsewhere. Today's reception is one of a series introducing prominent guests to members of the local Citizen's PAC and interested non-members...