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...things did not stop there. A strange transformation had come over the boys and girls of Glenridge-they actually began asking why they should not have classes on Saturday. With the approval of broad-minded Principal Adrian Stockard, Ansley decided to offer two Saturday courses in philosophy, to run 15 weeks. Those who took them would get no academic credit, would even have to pay $15 for the privilege of getting out of bed just as on any school day. Nonetheless, 17 signed up for the three-hour morning course in the history of philosophy, 26 more for logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Transformation | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Said former Aussie Davis Cupper Adrian Quist: "Their sole aim seemed to be to crush one another. Their standard of play is better than we have ever seen." Said Hoad, who is only too happy to explain how he has hopped up his game to match the wondrous power of Gonzales: "I'm hitting harder, flatter, trying to drive the other man to the base line. Either he can slam a hot one down the sideline or he can go for a cross-court drive. Now I always cover that sideline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tight Tour | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Streaking over California's Mojave Desert at an altitude of 39,000 ft. one ay last week, Air Force Major Adrian . Drew pushed his F-ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vhoosh | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...return to TV last week on ABC's filmed crime series, The Walter Winchell File, the columnist-turned-actor slowed down his Teletype voice; what he said was still unimportant but, thanks in considerable part to a good script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer, who haunts a frightened cop, "a man without guile, walking perhaps to death when his heart was full of new life." Winchell's old vaudeville training stood him in good stead, especially when he had to talk about "the tabloid fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Nowadays movie stars come equipped not only with gowns by Adrian and makeup by Westmore but with insight by Freud. Nobody talks more about Kim's suffering psyche than Kim herself. She has given hundreds of interviews with a couch-side slant, readily analyzes "my inferiority complex" and "my insecurity" and, digging back, rattles on about her childhood as if she were the only adult who ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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