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...still. This, too, was tame stuff for an incandescent spirit. He took a second wife, a Chinese girl, and she bore him two children to add to the eight he had by his first. But what he needed was another uphill fight to win, and there was none around. Aimless, restless, unhappy, the hooded falcon began to wane. "Pop's face," an old China hand said, "looks like it's worn out three bodies already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Hooded Falcon | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Teachers' colleges are, by and large, farcical diploma mills churning out second-rate instructors on a conveyer belt of picayune courses--motion picture camera projection, physical education, fingerpainting. And because their facade is so widely realized, they attract primarily the aimless high school graduate with no particular talents and less interest in any profession. Staffed and stocked by this brand of mediocrity, education will continue to devolve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gifted Child: Tragedy of U.S. Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Cute Girls. Cigar-smoking Elsa, a spry and engaging 74, is an aimless guest on Paar's weeknight show (11:15 p.m. to 1 a.m.), and he may lose her to other commitments. Still, Paar seems to have collected enough Paar-snips and talented showfolk to rescue NBC from the debacle of its late America after Dark show and save Tonight for many another day. Though Tonight is still a money-losing proposition for NBC, 76 stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Guy at the Office Party | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...farm in Silver, S.C. (in New York, her father went to work in a garage). The Gibsons' block between Lenox and Seventh Avenues was a play street, and in summer the white lines for paddle tennis and shuffleboard slid out over the baking asphalt to hold in the aimless kids. An instructor-supervisor sent up by the Police Athletic League divided his time as the situation demanded -part coach and part friendly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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