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Double Trouble. In Leeds, England, Mrs. Doris Leake frantically told doctors that a toy wheel had been swallowed by one of her 18-month-old twins - she didn't know which...
...beat, Alfred W. Conley '49 (above right) is thinking of using his experiences in his thesis. He says that kids are all the same, "The girls ask first dolls, then doll houses, and finally accessories for dolls; boys just want toy trucks...
With facts like these, Toy hopes to shame Delaware into action. Members' speeches, once buried in the back of newspapers, now make the front pages. Some school districts have taken an interest in trustee elections for the first time in years. Others have even voted to raise their own school taxes. Toy doesn't expect to lick the whole problem once & for all. Says he: "Interest will die down, and the schools will deteriorate. That will be the time for someone to start the cycle all over again...
...wife wanted to go bowling that evening, so Henry Toy Jr., a Du Pont executive, went to the Parent-Teacher Association meeting himself. He learned a thing or two. The public school in Oak Grove, Del., where his five-year-old son went, was so crowded that the kids had to wait in line to get into the bathroom. Were conditions that bad in other Delaware schools? He learned that they were generally far worse...
Saybrook College trotted out on House field number three yesterday afternoon, eager to toy with sixth-place Adams House and prove why it rated second in the Yale football league. But instead, of an adding machine score, the Yalies made it over the end zone stripe just once...