"Up the Down Staircase" author Bel Kaufman dead at 103

A former New York City high school teacher whose classic first novel, published in 1965, spent more than a year on the New York Times best-seller list, Bel Kaufman died at home in Manhattan at the age of 103. Story-telling was in her blood: her maternal grandfather was the celebrated Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem.