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...Last week, as the city picked its new school superintendent-James F. Redmond, longtime second in command to Chicago's Herold Hunt-it no longer had to apologize for its bad schools. The New Orleans school system is now booming as never before-largely because of the righteous wrath of the woman reporter from the States...
Case to the People. Jacqueline Leonhard, mother of two, had good reason for her wrath. Of the city's 92 school buildings, 25 were more than 50 years old, two others dated back to the 1850s, and even the newer ones were dingy, dark and dirty. In spite of mounting enrollments, the board had not built a new school in ten years, and only one building in the whole town met the specifications of the state fire marshal and the board of health. Nor had the board done anything to accommodate shifts in population: while some white schools were...
...Helsinki, Millionaire Shipowner Antti Wihuri, frightened by the sudden glare of publicity, tried to decide whether he should risk his ship and the wrath of the West by ordering the Wiima on, or break his contract with the Communists by ordering her to cancel delivery. At week's end, distraught Owner Wihuri fled to the privacy of a hospital bed, insisting as he went that the cargo which the Wiima took aboard in Red Rumania really wasn't aviation oil, but domestic oil for the lamps of China. "That's what it says in my contract...
...called it an "inquisition ... a bludgeon against academic freedom . . . I am sick." said he, "of teachers huddling ... in fear, hoping maybe a McCarran, a McCarthy or a Velde committee may overlook the bad thing they once said about fascism, or the time they chose to teach The Grapes of Wrath in class...
...Babbitt, Main Street and other novels, Sinclair Lewis broke through the lace curtain of gentility and poured satiric wrath on the American Yahoo-but later he failed to realize that the fight he had fought was over and won. In his articles he kept shadow-boxing at opponents he had knocked out years before, and perhaps it was this tedious concentration on the bogies of his youth that made his later books seem like watery rewrites of his best work...