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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having any of his 258 questions published and thus made easy for young newspaper and magazine readers, is that the Stanford-Binet is often given by incompetent or overanxious persons. He takes little stock in many of the fabulous I. Q.s that are continually being reported to him. Current champion is an anonymous 9-year-old Brooklyn boy whose I. Q. is supposedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tester | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...Logan over the picture to which the Institute's committee had awarded the Logan prize (Doris Lee's Thanksgiving) won Mrs. Logan a surprising amount of space in the U. S. press (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935, et seq.). Since then she has appointed herself a champion of academic painting in the U. S., and the fullest explanation of her position to date is Sanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity & Mrs. Logan | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...combined event to add to the International Ski Federation's World Championship he won last month at Chamonix. To generous Rudi Cranz. who finished eighth in the downhill race, fourth in. the combined event, went the consolation of watching his older sister Christl, world's champion skier, win the A-K prize for women more decisively than Allais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Snow | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...Florida-born Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second to his protege in the downhill race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Snow | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Sired by a national champion, Air Pilot, whose own sire, Muscle Shoals Jake, had also won at Grand Junction, Air Pilot Sam has taken seven major stakes this season, including the U. S. All-Age at Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Joe & Sam | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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