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When the summer school ends, the "interns" will split into two additional groups. Approximately half of them, while taking seminar courses here will continue to teach in Newton, Concord, Weston, and Winchester public schools; the remainder will be full time students at the School of Education. At midyears they will exchange positions and those in the School of Education will assume their partners' teaching duties. All "interns" will receive Master of Education or Teaching degrees...
...corners of the globe. At the other end are London's ABC shops, a chain of 164 cheap self-service tearooms. This week the Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain's huge Allied Bakeries, who is known throughout the empire as "the Barnum of bread." If ABC stockholders approve, Baker Weston will pay $8,120,000 for ABC, one of England's biggest low-cost restaurant businesses, second only...
This year Weston's worldwide interests will rack up sales totaling more than $1 billion, and profits will probably top $40 million...
...Weston makes something for everyone -slightly salted "Tavern Appetizers," spicy gingersnaps, big "Wagon Wheel" chocolate cream wafers and sweet "Shortcakes" for dessert, breads that go from "Ryvita" health bread to the standard "National Loaf" sandwich bread that is a staple of Britain's diet. Americans might find Weston's most popular bread too off-white and flabby for their taste, but Weston also makes a whiter, crustier loaf, which sells for a few cents more...
...World Enterprise. To Britain, Baker Weston is a unique example of new world enterprise returning to replenish the home country. His pride in his own success makes him regard other British businessmen a bit scornfully. Says he: "The men at the top in this country don't work hard enough. I am the greatest living exponent of enthusiasm in this country, and I want every living soul to be sold on the idea of working hard for Britain, just as my salesmen are enthused by me to sell my biscuits." As a Canadian soldier in World War I, Weston...