Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soprano Grace Moore was always full of plans. They carried her from her Slabtown, Tenn. home to musical comedy, to opera, to Hollywood and back to opera and the concert stage. Last week her ears were still ringing with the cheers of some 4,000 fans in Copenhagen's biggest concert hall, where she had sung Ciribiribin. "When the Iron Curtain descends on my voice," she had said, "I would like to be appointed Minister to Denmark." Meanwhile, there were more concerts to be given, a sick husband (ex-Movie Actor Valentin Parera-once called the "Ronald Colman...
Fayetteville, Tenn...
...product of progressive education and the Wagner Act, student strikes in the U.S. were on the rise last week. Some recent strikes and issues: in Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the girls wanted to wear slacks; in New York City, against Christmas homework; in Sapulpa, Okla., for a longer vacation. Sapulpa fathers formed a united front to break the strike, applied "woodshed tactics...
...FRED W. HENCK Knoxville, Tenn...
Unexpectedly, the school gong rang, and at the signal (which teachers mistook for a fire drill) 260 students filed out of the brick schoolhouse. Gallused tobacco growers loafing around the country courthouse in Rogersville, Tenn. (pop. 2,018) watched the kids coming, gaped in surprise when they read the cardboard signs. The kids were on strike for something kids weren't supposed to care too much about: they wanted more and better teachers...