Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earned his B.S. at the University of New Mexico, went on to Columbia University for an M.A. in school administration. At 19 he taught his first class; at 27 he was principal of the Third Ward Elementary School in Albuquerque. In 1910, when the town began looking for a new superintendent, it decided to try John Milne...
...supplement his $2,000-a-year salary, he had to work part time as a professional plumber. But even as he wiped joints, his mind seemed always on one thing. In those days, Albuquerque was a railroad town with only five schools, and most people thought it might stay that...
When he built the Albuquerque high school for 500 pupils, people protested that it was much too big. Today, though the smallest high school in town, it has had to be expanded to take an enrollment of 3,000. Superintendent Milne also began buying up land, though most of it seemed at first to be far too remote to be needed...
...Minor Mode. Not so long ago, when there was not much reading and writing in the Kentucky coal-mining mountains, let alone radio or TV, folk singing was one way to keep track of history. In the town of Dwarf (pop. 300), near Viper, in Perry County, there are folks who can still remember a blind fellow named Oakes. singing about what was going...
...TOWN HALL TONIGHT, by Harlowe Randall Hoyt (292 pp.; Prentice-Hall; $7.50), is a somewhat casual and bluntly nostalgic backward look at the small-town theater of the '80s and '905, when Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Old Homestead were sure to extract their quota of tears. The illustrations are of appropriate corniness...