Education: Boys & Girls Together

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Because of the neighborhood's changed atmosphere—and because of the shrewd and kindly efforts of the school's principal, a direct, distinguished-looking Negro woman named Margaret Douglas—politeness, cleanliness and the will to study are the vogue at P.S. 133. The school is so overcrowded that pupils attend in two shifts. But the children are sent to school in clean dresses, clean white shirts (and bow ties) and seem to be scrubbed daily within an inch of their lives. They work "like little angels." "In years to come," says Mrs. Douglas proudly, "these children are going to be something]"