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By the time children turn??18, they have spent only 13% of their waking lives in the classroom. Their habits of mind, motivation and muscles have much more to do with that other 87%. But try telling that to an Ivy-educated mom and dad whose kids aren't doing well. It can't be the genes, Mom and Dad conclude, so it must be the school. "It's the bright children who aren't motivated who are most frustrating for parents and teachers," says Nancy McGill, a past president of the Iowa Talented and Gifted Association. "Parents...
...stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn???exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
...which has no exit whatever except one door, locked from the inside. The only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn???a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes, is ingeniously simple and highly unexpected...
...SUNWISE TURN???Madge Jenison?E. P. Dutton ($2.00). Some seven years or so ago two women with little capital and no experience in bookselling whatsoever, with nothing but a devotion to good books and a desire for a bookshop of a species that they had never found before, started an original bookstore in New York City?a bookstore called the Sunwise Turn. At present, the Sunwise Turn is one of the most successful as well as one of the most individual smaller bookstores in America. This is the story of how it has become so?of its struggles, failures...
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