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When English Teacher George N. Allen quit his job at Brooklyn's slum-sick John Marshall Junior High School and unmasked himself as a crusading New York World Telegram & Sun reporter (TIME, Nov. 24), he sweetened his exposé with the promise that the $490 he had earned teaching would be turned over to a teachers' retirement fund. But the New York City Board of Education refused to act like a grateful teacher. Last week, while Allen continued to churn out his lively eyewitnesser under such headlines as "HEY, TEACH . . ." is SIGNAL FOR BEDLAM and SLOW PUPILS CHEATED...
Board Chairman Charles Silver advised at first that members forget about feuding with the Telegram, pointed out that there was much truth in Allen's series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen...
...Principal Mrs. Florence Hornung charged that much of Allen's series was untrue, but refused to point out any specifics. Reporter Allen, a Briton whose application for U.S. citizenship is pending, stuck to his guns, defended the truth of his series and the propriety of his espionage. The Telegram stood by what it had printed. Said one editor: "We studied every article carefully and toned down all of them. Conditions are much worse than what we said." Superintendent John Theobald complained, but the Telegram planned to let Allen's exposé run its full course this week...
Fred M. Leventhal '60, president of the Harvard Young Democrats, announced yesterday that organizations from the Universities of Southern California, Texas, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin have signed a telegram written by the HYDC endorsing Butler...
With sure instinct for a good story, the editors of the New York World-Telegram and Sun last winter handed Reporter George N. Allen a fat assignment: get the inside dope on one of New York City's problem schools by masquerading as a teacher. Last week, after two months of teaching, Allen began his series. His school: Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High, which became the city's most publicized last winter, after a month of hoodlum invasions, assaults and an alleged knife-point rape in a school basement ended in the suicide of Principal George...