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Charley Gray closed the door of his $30,000 house in Sycamore Park, Conn, and eased himself into the Buick beside his wife. On this rainy spring morning in 1947, as she did every weekday morning, Nancy was driving him to catch the 8:30 train to his Fifth Avenue bank job in midtown Manhattan. To Charley, this always seemed the friendliest time of the day. He noticed how Nancy's hair curled below the edges of her green hat and he realized gratefully that he could talk to her about the children, or the household budget...
...they firmly rejected parochial schools. The council recommended: 1) that Protestant parochial schools be discouraged as "a serious threat" to public education and democracy; 2) that the cultural and nonsectarian aspects of religion be taught through such subjects as history and literature in the public school curriculum; 3) that weekday religious education on a "released time" basis be continued...
...from 9 to 20. To make as homelike an atmosphere as possible, the children are divided into groups of 25 or 30, each known as a "family" and supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...
...form of clothing and books in almost any condition can be utilized and may be left at Brooks House any weekday from 9 to 5 o'clock, Tony Ottinger '50, chairman of the drive, announced last night...
...Each weekday morning Louis St. Laurent was up at 8:30. After breakfast, Chauffeur Franços Dion, who has been with the family 26 years, drove him to his old law office in the Price Building, where his two lawyer sons carry on the family practice. He chatted with them about their cases, talked with the local politicians who dropped in, kept in touch with Ottawa by phone. He turned aside political questions. When a reporter asked him if he thought that he would be reelected, he cracked: "I think people are tired of extraordinary men and of extraordinary...