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Section 1 Chicago Tribune, Fridav. March 17, 1978 A chilling flub by almanac on Flynt "7Jt Jack Life is going to be duller If they ever straighten out those computer addressing machines. But we'll still have Washington's machines. A lady I know in Crete recently sent an order to the Superintendent of Documents in Washington for a number of books. She enclosed the marked order form and a She heard from the Superintendent of Documents fairly promptly.

Hla letter sent back her check and the order form in shreds. There also was a form letter regretting the office' inability to fill the order, with a list of possible reasons. One of the reasons the one checked in this instance was: "We are sorry that your order was mutilated during opening with mechanical equipment, please resubmit." Apparently their opener is so rambunctious that they have a standing return form. My friend would like to resubmit her order but she doesn't know how to describe the original order because it came back mutilated; and no new order form was enclosed. Well, there are days but that is a Hustler staple.

Now Krassner and Flynt have diluted their vulgarity with message having some religious orientation. Tbe commercialization of Easter, for example. That's a standard outrage piece for everything from Readers Digest to Popular Mechanics. But Krassner, who brings to Husfler a strong sexual orientation, comes through with his idea of a religious discussion. It pertains to his idea of God's sexual organs.

Enough? Enough. Let's get on to more pleasant subjects. Nothing like a computer goof to brighten our day. A FLORIDA REAL estate development sent a brochure to the public library branch at 11071 S. Hoyne Av.

They had their computer print an imagined headline: CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY CATCHES WORLD'S LARGEST BASS "Who me? Yes, you, Chicago Public Library." The idea Is that Mr. CP. Library will catch a lot of bass if he buys a lot in Sugarmill Woods. OS PAGE 10 OF the World Almanac 1978, in the index, under the heading "Crime," and under the sub-heading "Murders," is the line "Editor killed 'Hustler'." The book was compiled last year. The entry is a mistake.

It refers to page 926 ard an account of Hustler editor Larry Flynt's obscenity conviction in Cincinnati. We called the almanac office in New York and asked what gives. "There was no clairvoyance on our part," said Juliana Mace, assistant editor. She said somebody just goofed in the last minute indexing rush. But she agreed that the error is "eerie and frightening." FLYNT IS PARTIALLY paralyifd and near death from a shooting in Georgia.

He is near martyrdom of a sort. He has attracted the company of such persons as Dick Gregory and President Carter's sister, who was a factor in Flynt's becoming a convert to some kind of religion. I wonder whether Ruth Carter has ever seen a copy of Hustler. I invested $2.25 in a copy of the April issue, the first since Flynt became a born-again Christian and Paul Krassner was given the title of publisher. The standard nude female cover has been replaced by a Message.

It Is a picture of a rabbit crucified on a cross. It illustrates "The Commercialization of Easter." Krassner and Flynt wanted to run a cover to prove people would buy a nudeless Hustler. I think they're in for a shock. The magazine is much worse than it used to be. That's like saying a pile of manure smells worse on Tuesday than it did on Monday.

BUT HUSTLER HAS built an audience of several million whose literary tastes must be submoronic. It was just plain smut, more vulgar and foul than the other nudies. Penthouse and Playboy don't carry much about body wastes, i viu: 4444) Irish toasts for all New from the Boehm studios sitting rabbit. Such an enchanting creature sure to leap right into your heart. Exquisitely hand-crafted of white porcelain, this delightful Easter surprise for someone special will be a treasure all year through.

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"And the whole custom of adding something to a drink evolved into toasting as we know it today, when you add a gentle thought or salutation or a feeling of the moment." TO.ASTS CAN RANGE from the ultra- romantic: Here is to loving, to romance, to us. May we travel together through time. We alone count as none, but together we re one, toasts "People don't have time for conversation and chat," McGowan said but there are plenty of old ones. One of the best known was invoked repeatedly, not as a toast but as a blessing, when Mayor Richard Daley died last year: May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your ace. May the rain jail soft upon your fields, And may God hold you in the hollow of his hand from this day forth. Not surprisingly, a number of Irish toasts revolve around the lowly potato in one way or another, as in this one to a bachelor: "May you have nicer legs than your own under your table before the new spuds are up." Toasts like that, which are as much a blessing as they are something to be said over a glass of Irish whiskey, also can include elements of a curse. For example: "May your enemies be drinking bog-water when you'll be drinking tea." But even that has none of the spirited malevolence of curses from other countries, such as the traditional Jewish one, "May all the teeth fall out of your head except one, so that you can still have a toothache." RATHER, THE IRISH drinking toast usually takes on a highly emotional and MJMDEMFORM IN DELICIOUS TIERS Assuring sweel dreams, Maidenform layers the delectable sherbet colors of mint, peach and white between nylon-spandex stretch lace. No, you're not dreaming, there's even a bed shawl.

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Call 372-6800 or write Box AA 60690. Add $1 delivery on orders under 9.95. Problem at Stowe has familiar ring seasons religious character, and never so much as at a wake. Although McGowan insists that the Irish consider a wake an event which should not be marked primarily by sadness, it's hard to escape a touch of the maudlin if somebody offers toasts like these two to the dear departed: May every hair on your head turn into a candle to light your way to heav-en. May God and his Holy Mother take the harm of the years away from you.

Much more cheerful is the non-Irish drinking toast, probably apocryphal, attributed to a hobo: "Here's to the holidaysall 365 of 'em!" SOMEHOW THAT BREEZY sentiment has more charm in a few words than the following, which someone probably slaved over: Health and long life to you. The mate of your choice to you. Land without rent to you. A child every year to you. May you die in Ireland, And be half an hour in Heaven before the Devil knows you're dead.

That's hardly the sort of thing a person tosses off before the convivial clinking of glasses, and not nearly as pithy and charming as this traditional toast: "May the roof never fall in and the friends below never fall out." NORTHBROOK COURT NORTHBROOK, ILL. TEL. 272-3800 OPEN: Sun. 1 2 to Wed. Fri.

10 to Tun. Thurt. 10 to Sa.10to5:30 ftt ti 'v1 For our partnership puts love to rhyme. To the direct and slightly bawdy: May you be shot at 95 years by a jealous husband! The Irish, said McGowan, have a way of coming up with a toast for every occasion, from birth to death. Many of them deal in general with the passage of time and generations.

Here are three: May you live to be 100, with an extra year to repent. May you have many children, and may they grow as mature in taste, as healthy in color, and as sought after as the contents of this glass. Health and long life to youLand without rent to youA child every year to you And may you die in Ireland. 1 THERE ARE A couple of conventions that really should be followed if you are to drink your toasts in the traditional way, McGowan said. One is to hold your glass in your right hand precisely why has been lost in the mists of time, and the other is to clink glasses to ward off evil spirits.

Unfortunately, there aren't many new are far behind in reading English. THIS READING problem is the source of the boycotters' major complaint against Miss Chuchut. There are others, of course. She is rude and anti-Latino, they say. She yells at parents; even told one woman she "didn't" have enough education" to meet with her.

They say she's failed to provide security, so that gangs roam school grounds freely, beating pupils. They say children have become ill and her office has failed to notify parents for as much as five hours. They say she makes pupils wait outside school until 9 a.m., even in zero weather. The list is quite long. But the most outrageous thing, parents say, is that she dictates grades.

Children who don't read English up to their age level which includes most Latino youngsters receive an 'N' grade in all their classes; not only reading, but science, social studies, and math. What is an 'N' grade? According to the marking code on report cards, it means "Needs Improvement makes little effort." Parents say their children get 100s and 95s on tests. They get 'E's and 'Gs' on homework papers. And at the end of the semester, thejr teachers write 'Es' and 'Gs' excellent and good on their report cards. Then Miss Chuchut allegedly changes them to A river of kids came pouring out of the alternative classrooms in the church.

It was 3 p.m. Confronting a visitor, they began to complain bitterly about getting "straight Ns." "I feel like I don't want to study any more if all I get is N's," said a girl named Carmen. All admitted they were below level in reading. "But we are working as hard as we can," said Luis. "I would love to be able to read better." At Stowe, the afternoon was winding down.

Miss Chuchut looked worn as she discussed her situation. She admitted she frequently advised teachers to lower grades on report cards. "IF WE GIVE A student an that means he's excellent. I can't buy that. I think that's operating under false pretenses if he's in 8th grade and reading at 4th grade level.

He needs improvement." A haughty woman named Mrs. Ann Burski, who runs the school's reading improvement program, said the grading system is relatively new, and ds called "the continuous progress system." "I hate to say It," she said imperiously, "but many parents just don't understand the continuous progress system." Miss Chuchut blamed much of the campaign against her on ''professional agitators" trying to bring in "a Spanish principal." It was like that before, she said. "THERE WAS a lot of that 10 or 12 years ago. That was the time of the activists. I was part of a big tide." Her eyes grew far away.

"Miss Chuchut," she was asked. "How do you account for the fact that in 12 years, at two separate schools, with two different minority groups, parents have demanded your removal?" Her eyes came back to the present. They flashed steeL "I don't account for It in any way," she said. Continued from page one 98 per cent black. She'd previously served as principal at Otis School, where her tenure was marred by a grievance petition circulated by teachers who' charged that she insulted faculty and pupils and had the effect of a Pacific undertow on morale.

Within months at Jenner, teachers began filing complaints. Parents quickly joined in. Miss Chuchut, as newspapers quickly began calling her in headlines, was a bigot, her accusers charged. She ruled by fear, they said, with an "iron hand." She was insensitive to the needs of the community. She had cut school like tutoring and library.

She had humiliated teachers in- front of pupils. The case of Miss Chuchut became a cause celebre. To the city's civil rights groups, coming of age in the middle 60s, she became a symbol of white dominance of the school system, and the consequent short-changing of black education. WHEN SCHOOL Supt. Benjamin Willis, whose educational views were so conservative he'd have been out of step with Thomas Acqulnas, publicly backed Miss Chuchut, open warfare ensued.

There were two extraordinarily successful class boycotts at Jenner. Dr. King end Al Raby stepped in to lead the fight. Board of education meetings were tied up for months- with the question of whether she should be removed. And in the end, very quietly, Mrs.

Chuchut was transferred to Stowe, which at that time was all white. To this day I can't tell you if Miss Chuchut was really as insensitive as parents and teachers said she was. But here is what she said in 1964 when, as principal of Carpenter School, her views on the school's problems -were included in a survey by The Tribune: The school's neighborhood, she said, was "about equally divided among the Negroes, Spanish speaking people, and various Caucasian groups; with few exceptions, they lack ambition and the drive to better their lot In life." TWELVE YEARS have passed since the lady came to Stowe School. The neighborhood has changed. It is at least half Latino now.

Deja vu seized a listener Thursday as Latino parents, much as black parents had pore than a decade earlier, began, ticking off Mildred Chu-chut's failings. "The problem is she has no respect for our children or the parents," said petite Pintor, who is young, Puerto Rican, and the mother of two pupils at Stowe. She was speaking in a hallway at the First Congregational Church, 1305 N. Hamlin where par-ents whose children are boycotting Stowe classes are conducting an alternative school. They have vowed to keep boycotting until Miss Chuchut is removed.

"My child was in a special reading class and she pulled him out of it because I was taking part in the boycott," said Mrs. Pintor, who is a social worker; her husband is a city garbage collector. Like many Latino parents, Mrs. Pintor is a fanatic about education. But like many Latino youngsters, her children BROOKS BROTHERS SPECIAL ORDER an important service to the many men desiring individuality and our workmanship The popularity of this department attests to the growing number of men who desire clothing that reflects their individuality.

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