Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eight championship in 21 years. They had been invited just twice (in 1941 and 1955) to post-season bowl games, and lost both times. Their most beloved player, Halfback Lloyd ("Wild Hoss of the Plains") Cardwell, never made anyone's All-America in the 1930s. The coaches were mostly men who went on to become famous at some other school, like Fielding ("Hurry-Up") Yost and Dana X. Bible...
Died. Sigmund Spaeth, 80, prolific author of music-appreciation texts (Music for Fun), remembered by radio and vaudeville audiences of the 1920s and 1930s as the razzle-dazzle "Tune Detective" who blithely traced the ancestry of I'm Always Chasing Rainbows to Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and Yes, We Have No Bananas to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...states had compulsory-attendance laws.* Soon, educators came to accept John Dewey's dictum that education is not a preparation for life but a part of it, and that a school must "reproduce, within itself, the typical conditions of social life." "Progressive" education in the 1930s and '40s thus took the stress from textbooks and placed it on self-discipline and experimentation. The classrooms became more exciting, but soon educators were out-Deweying Dewey; permissiveness, and ultimately anti-intellectualism spoiled Dewey's dream. Thanks to reformers like former Harvard President James Conant (TIME cover, Sept...
Divorced. By Joan Bennett, 55, movie siren of the 1930s (Careless Lady): Walter Wanger, 71, veteran film producer (Joan of Arc, Cleopatra), who in 1952 served 15 weeks in jail for jealously shooting her agent, Jennings Lang, in the groin; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...
Small European cars such as Renault and Peugeot have long had front-wheel drive, and so had the U.S. Cord in the 1930s. Critics contend that the system has disadvantages, but Oldsmobile General Manager Harold Metzel argues that engineering advances eliminate them. Power steering prevents sway and loss of control on turns; an adjustable torsion-bar suspension system eliminates over-steering. The Toronado will cost about $5,000, and Metzel anticipates sales...