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Progress was slow, since the older boys were excused for harvesting in fall, planting in spring, and boys of all ages took a "potato vacation." Girls stayed home to help their mothers through a pregnancy or the canning season. Yet even though the potbellied stove never quite coped with the Montana winters, only temperatures under 45° below could close the school. "I felt as if each day in school was precious to the children," Miss Blachly recalls, "and that I must fill it to the brim," since a few months each winter was "all the education they were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reunion in Montana | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...word, no. But it reminds me of 1874. Imagine! W. E. Gladstone attacked papal infallibility in his pamphlet, The Vatican Decrees, Solomon introduced the pressure-cooking method for canning foods, Richard Wagner completed Götterddmmerung, and Wingfield invented lawn tennis. And, oh yes-civil marriage was made compulsory in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Did J. E. Purkinje First Use the Term Protoplasm?* | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

Taking Clemow's place at number seven is junior Curt Canning, who rowed at number five last year. A 6-3, 200-pounder from Utah, Canning is steady and works well with Gardiner...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Powerful Crew Hosts Northeastern Today | 4/15/1967 | See Source »

...pioneer. Wakefield prepped at his father's processing plant at Port Wakefield on remote Afognak Island, struck out on his own after World War II to exploit the vast and virtually untouched king-crab grounds on Alaska's continental shelf. Though Japanese fleets had been catching and canning the huge crabs for years, Wakefield determined to try freezing the meat, on the theory that "when you are so far from the market that your costs are relatively high, your only hope is a product of the highest quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: King Crab | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

Besides Allen, Gardner and Hoffman the other returning lettermen for the heavies are: captain Jake Fiechter. Curt Canning, Andy Larkin, and Eric Sigward. Sophomores who show special promise are Goldkamp, Dave Higgins, Fritz Hobbs, and Cleve Livingston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavyweight Champs Facing Stiff Season | 3/29/1967 | See Source »

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