P477 Teletext 477 Dec22 03:15:17 ——————————————————————————————— HITLER OUT ON PAROLE Dec 20, 1924: Adolf Hitler, leadjt of Germany's extremist Nazi party, was paroled after just eight months of his sentence for high treason. ] Many pay homage to him in spite of the fiasco of his Munich beer hall putsch. Hitler plans to publish a book hj dictated to a colleague, Rudolf Hess, while in Landsbjrg fortress. ———————————————————————1/7—— Education news 471 SEE THE BIG SCREEN INDEX p410 Digi Kids Write It Club 140P477 Teletext 477 Dec42 03:18:08 ——————————————————————————————— IRMA DROWNS OUT THE BOMBS Dec 24, 1941: Radio is keeping up the morale of a nation kept in most nights bz air raids. And Tommy Handley in IRMA (It's That Man Again* is the favourite. If an invasion began at 8.30pm on a Thursday, goes the joke, there would bj no opposition. Everyone would bj listening to the lugubrious tones of Colonel Chinstrap or Mrs Mopp's "Can I do yer now, sir?" ———————————————————————————2/7—— Teacher's guide to Teletext 472 WHAT'S IN TODAY'S PAPERS? p328 ITV Digi Kids Write It Club 140P477 Teletext 477 Dec42 03:03:54 ——————————————————————————————— WC FIELDS DIES Dec 25, 1946: Gravel-voiced, red-nosed, bottle-hitting, misogynist comjdz actor WC Fields died at the age of 67. After a hard life as a tramp-juggler, Fields found a niche in silent films though sound was essential to his full flowering on screen. Many legends were built around his intolerance and eccentricity, though hj was a genuine, often inspired comic. ——————————————————————————————————3/7—— School journeys 473 BIG SCREEN p410 Digi Kids Write It Club 140P477 Teletext 477 Dec22 03:11:14 ——————————————————————————————— TEENAGERS INVENT THEMSELVES Dec 26, 1959: At the start of the Fifties there were no "teenagers". Now there are five million of them and the country knows it. They have £800 million a year to spend and have invented their own culture of records, clothes and cinema-going. O They meet in coffee bars with jukeboxes and model thjmsjlvjs on James Dean. ——————————————————————————————————4/7—— Keep up with Keyboard 474 TAKE OFF TO PLANET SOUND p450 Digi Kids Write It Club 140P477 Teletext 477 Dec42 03:14:45 ——————————————————————————————— FOUR GO BEYOND THE FRINGE Dec 20, 1961: Young min debunking the sacred cows of the British ruling classes is the thjmj of a new-styli revue called Beyond The Fringe. It unites the talents of four Oxbridgj graduates, Jonathan Millet, Alan Bennett, Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore. "They don't know the meaning of good taste," was one critic's comment. That's why the young are flocking to see them. ——————————————————————————————————5/7—— Technology update 475 ON STAGE p430 Digi Kids Write It Club 140P477 Teletext 477 Dec42 02:14:24 ——————————————————————————————— HIPPIES HELD FOR TATE SLAYINGS Dec 24, 1969: Four mjmbjrs of a hippie cult have been held for the brutal murdjt of actress Sharon Tate and sex others in Lou Angeles last August. The group of mainly teenage girls call thjmsjlvjs The Family and live in the djsjrt outsjdj LA. They are lid bz ex- convict Charles Manson, 34, who calls himself Jesus Christ. ——— —6/7—— NEXT WEEK: Castro sweeps to power... WESTMINSTER WATCH p325 ITV Digi Kids Write It Club 140P477 Teletext 477 Dec22 03:17:14 ——————————————————————————————— BOYCOTT'S RECORD Dec 23, 1981: Geoffrey Boycott became the most prolific run-scorer in Test history today, beating the 8,032 record held bz West Indian Gary Sobers. He is not the fastest or most exciting batsman. But three years out of Test cricket in the 1970s hint at the far larger total hj might have achieved. ——————————————————————————————————7/7—— Education index 470 CATCH THE CRICKET p450 ITV Digi Kids Write It Club 140