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...fringe benefits already include a show to train local school board members, a recent production of Macbeth for English literature classes, a statewide monthly brushup program for doctors, and a projected junior college TV program for evening students all over South Carolina. But the vital change is among schoolchildren, now getting a taste of expert teaching for the first time. For thousands of her classmates, one ninth-grader sunis up: "I've learned more this year than I did in the seventh and eighth grades put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salvation by Television | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Babes in Toyland (Buena Vista), Walt Disney's first live-action musical, is a wonderful piece of entertainment for children under five, but children over five who plan to see it will be well advised to take some Berlitz brushup lessons in baby talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nursery Crhymes | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Revived on Broadway for a two-week brushup before opening at Paris' international Exposition of the Arts next month, Four Saints got a brilliant production, with Composer-Critic Thomson himself conducting. Like some abstract paintings, it was pretty to look at-and in this case agreeable to listen to-even though it made no sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Pigeons | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...work,: 9:30-10.45 a.m., rehearsal and broadcast of The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters; 10:45-11:30 a.m., breakfast; 11:30 null p.m., rehearsal and broadcast of Big Sister; 1:15-4:15 p.m., rehearsal of FBI in Peace and War; 4:15-4:45 p.m., brushup and repeat broadcast of Evelyn Winters; 4:45-5:30 p.m., dress rehearsal of FBI in Peace and War; 5:30-7:15 p.m., rehearsal and broadcast of Mystery of the Week; 7:15-9 p.m., final rehearsal and broadcast of FBI in Peace and War; 9-11 p.m., dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hackensack's Shame | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Catalyst with Resilience. Having just weathered the toughest science brushup course of all time, Teacher Conant should be in good form. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee he exercised absolute dictatorial powers over men and materials in its $2 billion wartime research program, developing radar, antiradar, various new chemical warfare wrinkles-and nuclear fission. Conant's job was as an organizer, moderator and catalyst, but he would have failed if he had not been a topnotch scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chemist of Ideas | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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