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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was the sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester (both of his grandfathers had also been Protestant clergymen). Religion began to serve him at the age of 15; when a friend came down with typhoid, Ronnie lived on bread and butter for six weeks. His friend died, and Knox prayed for him 15 minutes each day "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy. At 24, he became the Anglican chaplain of Oxford University's Trinity College...
...house in the country and set to work; it was to take ten years, at the average rate of 24 verses a day, and today it is an approved version. World War II provided some interruptions-especially when Knox became confessor to a group of evacuated teen-age girls billeted in the same house. But his sermons to them and other schoolgirls made two lucid little books for laymen on Catholic fundamentals: The Mass in Slow Motion and The Creed in Slow Motion...
MILTON ALLEN, 20, a lanky guitarist out of Houston who represents RCA Victor's latest bid for the rocking teen-age market. A panting, heavy-dew singer, Milton was spotted by RCA fieldmen while he was stomping it out on local Houston radio shows. He was hustled to New York, shorn of his Elvis Presley locks, fitted into a grey flannel suit and photographed in Central Park, looking sincere. RCA is pushing him with the trade on two newly released singles: Just Look, Don't Touch, She's Mine and Love A, Love A Lover...
...nonsense to eliminate competition-so noisily encouraged in athletics-from academic work. It may be wrong to expose a dull child to repeated failure by making him work with pupils much brighter, but he certainly ought to be allowed to compete with equals. Instead of grouping children by age, they should be grouped according to ability. It is time that the schools get over the notion that a child functions best only within his age group, that grouping by ability is undemocratic, and that there is something wrong about letting a student advance as fast as he is able...
...august body, the President's Council of Economic Advisers, argues that the danger of inflation has passed. Last week in Washington, a single, persistent note began to carry above the hubbub of disagreement. Its message: the greatest economic boom in U.S. history may be starting to show its age...