Speed-Reading Teacher Keeps Large Classes Busy
Ruth S. Purdy, speed reading instructor at Long Beach City College, teaches two classes per term with adults and students. Her program has helped about 50 people increase reading speeds, some doubling or tripling their pace, while she notes individual differences and potential.
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Texas GOP Solon to Seek Office Again in 1956
Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who defeated Wallace Savage, former Dallas mayor and ex-chair of the state Democratic Executive Committee, says he will run for re election in 1956 after returning from the House opening sessions. He noted two years mainly lay groundwork for future aims.
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Reading Rate Study Shows 50 Percent Improvement
The article quotes Mrs. Purdy on democracy and the printed word, noting that culture demands citizens stay informed. It discusses testing a fast-reading ability and asks what one should do first to read faster, suggesting a study on increasing reading rate by up to fifty percent.
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Mrs. Purdy
Realty Man Reads at 500 Words Per Minute
A Long Beach real estate insurance man says his reading speed fell to 250 wpm until he took Long Beach City College speed reading course. William F. Alexander, 50, at 835 Locust Ave, reports improving comprehension and vocabulary and the ability to read faster aids his work. Frances H. Dixon, 216 Euclid Ave aquatics director for the Long Beach Recreation Department, says the course raised her rate from 275 to 500 wpm and improved comprehension and derivation study.
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Euclid Ave
Pony Express Exhibit Sold to Reno Man
Anuauvsad rl arcadi famed Pony Express Museum is abandoned for progress. W Parker Lyon Jr says the six acre site and collection of old relics including a narrow gauge railroad stage coaches dance hall and stamp collection were sold to William Harrah Reno nightclub owner. The items will move to a permanent exhibit near Reno by March 1 with many pieces hailing from Gold Hill Virginia City and the California Mother Lode.
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Nationalist Guns Hit Red Vessel in Tachen Straits
In Formosa Taipei reports say nationalist artillery fired on a Chinese warship in the Tachen Islands chain. The incident crippled the vessel size of a warship and left heavy damage, though officials claim the naval action brought fighting to a near halt.
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