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Otherwise, the meet was pretty unfruitful for the Crimson, as it finished a dismal eleventh out of the fourteen-team field. Yale, the winner, carded a team score of 603, to the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Place 11th | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Having had the privilege of sitting in for a day on Paul Richer's classes early in the school year, I can feel only pity for the muddleheaded burghers who fired him. Dismal, hopeless mediocrity is the most serious menace to present-day primary and secondary education in America. There is no room in Riceville for originality, no tolerance there of intellectual inquiry. If this sordid phenomenon were limited solely to Riceville, Iowa, Americans would have small cause for worry; unfortunately, it is not. The real reason Paul was dismissed is that his students were beginning to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Mayor David Lawrence, Stevenson remarked: "I can't be sure, of course, that I will retain their allegiance until next August." Estes Kefauver was in no better shape; his improved Gallup poll rating after the Minnesota primary could be expected to fall off after last week's dismal New Jersey showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Party Crisis | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...developing writers to work with, one still wishes that they would occasionally, tackle something more mature. The current issue of the Advocate, however, seems to contradict this preference, for the two best stories concern an idiot and a retarded hillbilly, while the one supposedly mature characterization is a dismal failure...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 3/14/1956 | See Source »

Sportswriter Al Laney found Sam lonely and starving in a dismal Harlem flat. Laney's story about the great old fighter brought more than $9,000 in gifts, which gave Sam an income of $49.13 a month. He managed to get along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tar Baby | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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