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...Richard N. Harris) invented the Toni. "We have a man who is coming to be recognized as the foremost ornithologist of our country [Sidney Dillon Ripley II] . . . We have a famous Fifth Avenue florist [Max Schling Jr.], the entrepreneur of a famous commercial language school [Charles F. Berlitz...
When he returned to the U.S., Davies decided that he wanted to learn Chinese. After the Berlitz school had taught him some fifteen hundred characters, he was ready to return to cover the Nationalist-Communist struggle. Then he found himself in the thick of the Korean War, covering the battle from the front lines. The war correspondent casualty rate was higher than in World War II, and Davies felt he was living on luck until one day when his jeep smashed into an onrushing tank. He emerged with a broken arm and a fractured skull...
Emphasis in the Department of Romance Languages rests on literature rather than on proficiency in speaking the language. "The department is not a Berlitz school," explained LeRoy C. Breunig, assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures...
Richardson said that the Berlitz schools in Germany are now using TIME in their courses, and that an English instructor told him: "We find it the very best means of acquainting our students with the American idiom." That idiom, however, is often baffling. Says Richardson: Even our German employees find many phrases in TIME puzzling and come to us to have them translated. Some questions : "What does this expression 'get cracking' mean?" "What is a Toni?" "What are daisy hams?" "Why do you say 'cool' cash?" "What kind of man is a square...
...that "he would make no public speeches or statements until the 'Foreign Ministers' Conference in Paris is concluded." In the crowd of spectators which had gathered to see what all the excitement was about, someone shouted: "Viva Wallace!" Wallace leaped into his auto, shouted in his best Berlitz-taught Spanish: "Muchas gracias," and rolled away...