Word: township
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keogh, who was born 39 years ago on a 280-acre farm in Platte County, Neb., was eleven and in the seventh grade in 1928 when he was the lone pupil in District 42 School in Burrows Township. With the undivided attention of Teach er Elizabeth Liebig, he studied seventh and eighth-grade lessons simultaneously. In between, he argued politics with Teacher Liebig: she was for Prohibition and against Al Smith; he was for Smith, against Prohibition...
Glenview was not alone in its crisis last week. Every town around Chicago, like scores of expanding suburbs across the U.S., was suffering from the plague of too many new houses and too few schools. In the Northfield, Ill. township (which includes Glenview), the overcrowding had become so acute that the board of education put up signs as a warning to homebuyers: "School crisis. Our schools are filled. No money to build new schools. School taxes at maximum allowed." The fact is, says one superintendent, "that if something doesn't happen soon, we're going to have...
...because she suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, an uncommon disorder in which the bones are so fragile that they snap under the slightest strain. She has had about 100 fractures (her parents have lost count), at least two simply from being startled. Last week Betty Sheaffer, 22, graduated from Stowe Township High School, near Pittsburgh, after 13 years of home instruction. Her chosen career : typist, working at home...
...Quest. In Atlantic City, N.J., Harry Biglin, after serving six months in prison for car theft, 1) stole a 1949 Lincoln and then abandoned it for a newer model, 2) drove to Mount Holly and stole a 1953 Cadillac, 3) drove the Cadillac ten miles to Falls Township, Pa., where he abandoned it for a 1954 Mercury, 4) after his arrest, told officials: "A new automobile always fascinated...
...during this venture that Frank McDonald first became an ad salesman. At each stop they would round up local talent for a program, then sell advertising time to the merchants. "I remember one show we put on in Sycamore, Illinois," he says. "I was the announcer. The local township orchestra was directed by a girl named Florence Wollensock, and I made the mistake of calling her 'Cot-tonsock' several times. The soloist on the same show was a girl named Lulu Clutter, and the accordionist was Charlie Pittlecow. If that wasn't an announcer's nightmare...