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School of Experience. In Los Angeles, truant officers checking Santa Anita race track found no truant schoolchildren, but flushed bigger game: a hookey-playing Pasadena principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...strike, so can we!" shouted one of the kids. Soon there were 1,200 of them snake-dancing through four miles of Jersey City streets. They didn't like a change in their classroom hours. It took the mounted police, the pleadings of teachers, the threats of truant officers and two days to get all the strikers back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wanted: Woodsheds? | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Mickey Finn. In Tacoma, Wash., a truant monkey for three days scampered through treetops, across rooftops, was finally brought down by a banana doped with sleeping pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Little Gangy," Bummy took care of his own problems. When his opponents were too big he clouted them with a fearsome weapon-one of his mother's stockings with coal stuffed in the toe. For entertainment he dropped flower pots off fire escapes on passersby, and dodged the truant officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tough Guy | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Marathon Hooky. In Brooklyn, Truant Officer Walter O'Leary hunted Hooky Player Louis F. Cianca for three years, finally found him at a blood bank. Ex-Navy Coxswain Cianca had meantime accumulated seven battle stars in the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 2, 1945 | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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