Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture on this week's cover story is of Mrs. Douglas Thorn Jr., 23, a Manhattan model who symbolizes the American woman's search for beauty. Arkansas-born Jean Thom is the mother of a two-year-old boy, works about 25 hours a week at modeling for top cosmetic houses. She has a problem that most women who visit beauty salons would be delighted to share: she is petite (98 Ibs.). Says Jean Thorn: "I hate it. I take vitamin pills and everything to fatten up a bit." She spends about 20 minutes a day making...
...weeks since TIME published its Law Day, U.S.A. cover story on American Bar Association President Charles Rhyne [May 5], we have received many approving letters from lawyers, law students and jurists. One of the most gratifying came last week from Milton E. Bachmann, executive secretary of the State Bar of Michigan...
...thousands who eddy each day through the 470-acre exhibit-packed Brussels World's Fair, the U.S. Pavilion, with its open plaza, reflecting pool and splashing fountains, has become a star attraction. But what is inside the lofty, translucent drum designed by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, Cover, March 31) has become the subject of a running controversy, at home and abroad. Main reason is that the U.S., setting out to give its interpretation of a new humanism tailored to fit the Atomic Age, decided it could win more friends by using the soft sell. The result...
...this new program.Here Walden eighth graders examine, with a teacher, a map of the United States. They have drawn it themselves, applying the basic ideas of mapping that they learned earlier with reference to the sky. A remarkably accurate series of maps of different parts of the world cover the walls of the eighth grade classroom...
...school curriculum has included "honors" sections for more than twenty years, and the able student has the chance to do more concentrated work in English, Mathematics, American and World History, and foreign languages. In addition, a full program of Advanced Placement courses is available for qualified senior. These courses cover material equivalent to what an introductory college treatment of the field would include, and successful completion of an Advanced Placement course counts for credit at some colleges. These courses probably provide the most rewarding academic high school experiences for the pupils who take them. English, American history, and French used...