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...either his secretary, Miss Cordier, or his receptionist, Mrs. Hendryson, has the sniffles, he invariably stops to commiserate and give a little advice on cold remedies. But last week, affable Superintendent Oberholtzer was a trifle pressed. From all over the U.S., a thousand of his colleagues were about to descend upon him for one of the important educational conferences of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pattern of Necessity | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...state, although there were no marks on him. The prosecutor began to read from Father Kalojera's "confession." The priest interrupted: "With your tortures, I didn't know what I was saying." The judge slammed his gavel. "How dare you suggest that our forces of security would descend to inhuman methods?" Father Kalojera replied: "They put electric wires in my mouth and down my throat, and then switched on the current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report On Yugoslavia: A Search for Laughter | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m.), which is a good deal better than its coy title. He sees TV as more closely related to the theater than to movies-"No film is as good as what we can do live on television." He is also confident that it will never descend to the low mental level of radio, because it can deal with adult problems, "and we don't get chichi or phony about them." In TV, he has tackled such subjects as adultery and Lesbianism, both frowned upon in radio and movies, without causing any scandalized uproar. "We deflect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Polish | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Smith women will hear five hours of Harvard radio programs tomorrow night when 24 members of WHRB descend on WCSR, the Smith College Radio Station, to broadest their own programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Will Give Program at Smith | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Miss Martha Blume, activities director at the North End Union, claims that the "turnover among this high school group is naturally large. Most of the youngsters drop out as soon as they pass their courses, but every time report cards come out a swarm of parents descend, on as with their flunking children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 127 Brooks House Men Act As Tutors to School Boys | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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