Word: thats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Out of a job at week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar...
All the schoolboys knew that the ancient Romans wore togas. "But what did a toga look like?" the tubby, jolly man of 44 asked his ten-year-olds in Leeds, England. When none could answer, Student Teacher Philip Lyons whipped a toga out of his briefcase. A tailor's...
Swinging a Pickax. Last year, with the Leeds area short of several hundred teachers, Educator Taylor hit on the sound idea that people in their 30s and 40s might like to switch careers. He aimed at restless mothers of teen-aged children, at bright older men with dull jobs who...
The Shame. Gleason's troubles began when he appeared as a participant on a television panel show, David Susskind's Open End, with his World-Telegram partner Fred J. Cook. Teamed with Gleason on numerous expose stories, Cook, 49, a World-Telegram veteran of 15 years and a...
Midway in the television show, Moderator Susskind turned to Fred Cook with a question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he...