Recommended by the Grant Borough Board of Public Education.

All available with audio on cassettes for automatic projectors or on LP records that go bing.

Physical Fitness: Building Character Through Dodgeball

Your Middle Finger: Its Use and Abuse

The Romantic Story of Meat

The Fourteen Parts of Speech (Eight Traditional Ones plus Six We Just Made Up)

Combating the Sparrow Menace

The Importance of Air

Make Words Work for You

How the Indians Lived Before We Killed Them

Apostrophe’s: Their Use’s and Misuse’s

Building a Paragraph with Construction Paper and Paste

Things Your Parents Don’t Want You to Know About the Stuff in the Attic

Consonants: Fun with the CH Sound

James Joyce fans who had pre-ordered the graphic-novel adaptation of Finnegans Wake from Classix Comix received emailed notices this morning that the publication would be delayed for some months. According to the notice, the lettering specialist had developed an unfortunate heroin habit, and three of the five proofreaders hired for the project had gone on strike for higher pay, the other two having barricaded themselves in the editorial office and issued a list of demands that the publisher described as “incomprehensible.”

In a churchyard in the tiny hamlet of Clinton, now a western suburb of Pittsburgh, the tombstone of a young wife who died in 1828 quotes Proverbs 31:12 in the authorized Picksburgh version:

And She done him good and not harm all the days of her life.