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Since then he has been on the boob tube like a teen-ager's idol. The only trouble is, he comes over with as much umph as a dish of grits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...past. Her father's family were the only Jews in Lorain, Ohio. They managed to send their son to Harvard, but he dropped out and knocked around Europe for a few years. Says Mary: "He once started a girlie magazine called Hot Dog. When I was a teen-ager I found one and tore it up. Now I'd give anything for a copy." Her father then converted to a rather strenuous Roman Catholicism and spent the rest of his life (he died when Mary was eight) starting right-wing religious magazines, "things like Catholic International," that lasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Lib | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...complete 180 hours of graded coursework, including 45 hours in language arts (which must include nine terms of English), 15 hours in science and 30 in social studies. But only slightly more than half the coursework is prescribed, and full credit is given for such courses as American Teen-Ager and Interior Decorating. One disgruntled teacher brands them "education by entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...second part of the autobiography is a photographic documentation of the bodybuilder's education: from a husky, crew-cut teen-ager to world champion. The vein-popping, oiled-up poses are worthy of a photo feature in Christopher St. magaizine...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: 'I knew I was a winner. I just had it in me.' | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

Stutterers claim that the public has little idea of the burden of a stammer. Michael Sugarman, a graduate student at San Francisco State University, says that as a teen-ager he always ordered french fries when eating out because "french fries" were the only words on the menu he could pronounce fluently. Says he: "So I wound up with acne as well as a stutter. That was my boyhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Let's Hear It for Stutterers' Lib! | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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