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...wife of an industrial physicist, Teacher Levin is the mother of three sons (aged 6, 10, 12) and a sometime novelist who contributes frequent book reviews to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A University of Wisconsin graduate, she began teaching in Tulsa this year. As a supplement to the regular reading list, e.g., Canterbury Tales, she supplied paperback editions of Catcher because it seemed to her "a beautiful and moving story." It was not required reading...
When the irate parents hit Tulsa's newspapers, bookstores sold out all copies of Catcher the first day. More important, the Tulsa Tribune school editor failed to find one Edison High student opposed to Teacher Levin (adult citizens were about equally divided). Said Student Barbara Miller, 16: "I've learned a great deal from Mrs. Levin. Our whole fourth-period class is behind her 100%." Added Teacher Levin's husband: "What do they want high school students to read-Peter Rabbit?" That was not the way Superintendent Mason viewed it. But after commiserating with the complaining parents...