Jobs even the cops can’t do. South suburban Matteson police detective Richard Walsh, quoted in the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority’s Trends and Issues 91: “I’ve had calls from parents who say, ‘I just can’t handle him. He’s staying out at night, and he won’t go to school.’ Then I ask them, ‘How old is your son?’ And they’ll say, ‘He’s 8.’ Now what the hell do they expect us to do? They can’t even discipline a little kid.”
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The USS Wolverine, launched August 22, 1942, at Madison Street and Lake Michigan, was something unique, according to John Laudermilk in the Chicago Maritime Society newsletter From the Pilot House (Fall): “a fresh-water, coal fired, paddle-wheel aircraft carrier.” It and one other converted passenger ship were used to train 17,820 young Navy aviators (George Bush among them) in how to land on and take off from aircraft carriers. “Many pilots flew in the North American SNJ, the Navy’s trainer of the era, but a great many other types of aircraft landed on the ships as well [including] the FM-2ÉF6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair fighters along with SBD Dauntless dive bombers and TMB Avenger torpedo bombers. Anyone who doubts the variety of planes that made approaches to either ship need only speak with present-day Chicago area scuba divers. The bottom of Lake Michigan is littered with vintage Navy aircraft.”
“The main concern of educators should not be to make African-American or Irish-American or Italian-American children proud of their culture,” contends John Garvey in Commonweal (August 9). “That’s their parents’ job. This is, once more, a case of public schools being asked to do what a larger culture, or network of subcultures, has failed to do….Self-esteem ought to be at the bottom of any educational curriculum, and literacy (narrowly defined) at the top.”
Answer: Architecture, of course.
