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...conscientious educator, Superintendent Gerald Smith concluded that the tests had become too easy; so routine, in fact, that parents knew exactly how to cram their children for them. Convinced that kindergarten is harmful for children who are not ready ("Their attention span is much too short. They cry and wet their pants"), Smith and his seven-member school board decided to get tough...
Sinatra would appear onstage, looking, as one contemporary described him, "like a terrified boy of 15 in the presence of his first major opportunity." He would hang for a moment on the microphone, holding it itchily, as if it were a snake. "His face was like a wet rag." His chest caved in, as if from the weight of the enormous zoot shoulders it bore, and a huge, floppy bow tie hung down like the ears of a spaniel. For a moment he would look among his audience, pleadingly, as if searching for his mother, and then he would begin...
...Weakling. When he was 18, Little Joe O'Brien rode an empty coal car into Nova Scotia to take a job as driver and trainer for a River Hebert horseman. He weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet, and looked like a shy weakling. But he had a way with horses. Soon he was driving and winning on bush tracks in New England and the Maritimes. He took a broken-down, eleven-year-old gelding named Dudey Patch and patched him up so well that he became a Canadian champion. On the little country tracks around the U.S. and Canada...
...vigorous and increasing waves. People who looked for a healthy climate, pleasant living, new opportunities and the freedom of elbow space found them in the desert. Modern technology was ready to help combat the desert's age-old barriers. A dozen years before, old settlers slept in wet sheets or went to bed in "submarines," welded metal boxes over which cooling water was pumped during the night. Now, at war's end, there was modern air cooling and refrigeration. In homes, offices and resorts, men found. they could live, work and play in air-conditioned comfort and move...
...raining buckets in Paris' Boulevard Poissonniere one night last week as six taxi drivers shouted and gesticulated at the door of the Hotel Violet. "What kind of a circus is this?" cried one. "We'll get wet as pigs," complained another. "This calls for an extra tip." Eventually, the taxicabs got under way, carrying 16 American girls dressed in flowing silver-grey silk and toting violins, violas, cellos and a string bass; their conductor, Boris Sirpo, and a few assistants. In sum total they were the Little Chamber Orchestra from Portland, Ore., and their destination was the National...