Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contractor, he started as a carpenter. Hating it, he wangled a job as a "second cameraman" errand boy at the old Fox movie studios. In 1925, hunting security (he has a wife and four children), Bach tried to peddle himself to seven Los Angeles high schools as a photography teacher. He was coldly turned down everywhere except at Fremont High. "I'll take a chance," the principal said skeptically. "But you'll have to show progress without spending much money...
...Cover Eleanor." "All I ever demanded was results," Bach recalls, "and I got 'em." One reason was Teacher Bach's skill at spotting hungry boys with talent, most of them Depression kids with a drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a fine camera: "In those days, it was like buying a diamond." Often Bach lent a boy the down payment out of his own pocket, persuaded a camera store to give him credit, found him odd jobs to keep up the payments. With a precision instrument in his palms...
...pinup of Rita Hay worth (reprinted 60 million times), the distinguished Korean war photographs of Hank Walker and John Dominis. Today, Fremont High is still turning out expert Bach graduates. But fewer are able to cash in on Bach's training: the school has become predominantly Negro, and Teacher Bach confronts a color line (though it is steadily receding) when he tries to find jobs for prize graduates...
Bach aims to circle the world soon and check up on his proteges. Last week, as scores of them descended on Los Angeles for a banquet in his honor and messages poured in from others, Teacher Bach had a thought. "I might even get a job from one of them," he mused as his spectacles slid down his nose. "You never know what those monkeys are going...
...Protestants, only 31% (as against 74% of the Catholics) believed in immortality. Only 45% regard Jesus Christ as "divine"; 40% consider him "only as a very great prophet or teacher...