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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Publisher Hearst added to his editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however, in the opinion of most observers, was that Stanford had invited to California, right under Mr. Hearst's disapproving nose, the man who for many a year has represented and championed everything Mr. Hearst likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unmentionable Counts | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

That man is George Sylvester Counts. Last week the slight, peppery Professor of Education in Columbia University's crack Teachers' College turned up in Palo Alto, at Stanford's expense, to address 1,800 educators assembled for the University's annual Conference on Curriculum & Guidance. Well aware that his reputation as an eminent radical educator had preceded him to Hearstland, he began his address thus: "It's becoming almost respectable to be called a Red. Let anyone step out in defense of popular right, and he will be labeled a Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unmentionable Counts | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Profoundly grieved, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico journeyed from San Juan to the summer palace at Jajome Alto to bury his favorite Labrador, Black Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Famed among mining engineers for two sober works, Concentrating Ores by Flo tation and Economics of Mining, Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Engineer | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

This decision abruptly arrested a case which has kept California tongues wagging since Memorial Day 1933. That May morning a real estate agent and her client dropped in at the Lamson bungalow on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto. They found Lamson stripped to the waist. He had been burning rubbish in the backyard. Telling his callers to wait until he got a shirt on, Lamson vanished into the house. A few minutes later he opened the front door, cried: "My God, my wife has been murdered." Rushing in, the agent and client found the nude, dead body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Trials & Out | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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