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Intellectual Exercise. Today's sport, says Irving De Koff, coach of Columbia University's defending co-champions (along with N.Y.U.), is much more of an intellectual exercise. "While trying to protect yourself, you are testing, trying your opponent. You are investigating his patterns, his attitudes, his favorite actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Swordsmen | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

"Small-Size Adult." According to Flesch, the basic flaw in the system lies in that it "looks at a child as if it were a small-size adult." Lip reading and learning the rudimentary ABCs are taboo; the word "children" is "children" only because Teacher says so, not from any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Johnny Can't Read | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

The time was 1937. The place: Paris. Both men were Communist functionaries. Koestler, in fact, had just been sprung from a Franco prison and, as a liberal martyr, was welcomed with flowers at the Gare du Nord. But by then Comrade Koestler had already changed ideological trains. The moment had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Labyrinth | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

You Need Sense. The one and only way to beat the game, says the professor, is to learn how to decipher the fine type in the form charts. From these cryptic figures the patient handicapper may judge a thoroughbred's breeding, consistency and condition, its ability to carry the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Horse Professor | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

The picture's plot would perhaps be easier to decipher if patrons were handed pocket models of the Rosetta stone at the door. Ostensibly, the No. 1 digger (Robert Taylor) is out to find the tomb of the first Pharaoh to believe in only one God-the one influenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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