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...there still time for a renaissance of learning in the U.S., or have we "progressed" with Dewey too far into the educational dark ages? If so, our educators can doubtless console themselves with the thought that advanced bead-stringing will prove functional in a society of cave dwellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

After moving from one hotel to another for a period of two years, Storyville has finally settled down in a pleasant little cave beneath the Hotel Buckminster. Carefully directed by its founder, George Wein, it has stuck by its original purpose of bringing the best in native music to appreciative Boston audiences...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Josh White | 3/18/1952 | See Source »

...content," says Eleanor McClatchy of Sacramento, "to have people think I live in a cave and wear horns." Nobody thinks that, but few know that Miss McClatchy, 51, is one of the richest and most powerful newspaperwomen in the U.S. She is president of California's Sacramento, Modesto and Fresno Bees (combined circulation 247,000), and the boss of six western radio stations. In all, her empire is worth an estimated $30 million. Yet Eleanor McClatchy is so publicity-shy that she seldom permits her picture to be taken, will not even say where she went to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beehive | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...young blood rises, Ches and Finn do their share of "kissin' and bleedin' like the Cloonies." When the light is doused on a picnicking foray into a sea cave, Ches feels the touch of a woman's hand. "The fingertips of my right hand then encountered the woman's breast. The touch was fugitive: yet how sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shout in the Blood | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...windswept Bolivian tin-mining center of Oruro, garishly garbed Indian miners paraded through the streets last week behind some 60 mules and oxen laden with silverware and assorted household objects. Arriving at the Church of the Virgin of the Cave, patroness of Oruro tin diggers, the marchers symbolically offered their silver and china to the Virgin -just as their ancestors brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Devilishness | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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