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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They are Herbert I. Bruning, Principal of Emporia High School, Emporia, Kansas; Frank G. Dickey, Dean of the College of Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; John W. Hanson, Instructor in Education at University High School, Urbana, Illinois; and Douglass B. Roberts, Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Westport, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educators | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

Cameo Theater (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC). First of a three-part presentation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, with Douglass Montgomery, Claire Luce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...JAMES H. DOUGLASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...DOUGLASS HALE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Baby Sitting. Until 1867, ostriches ran wild. South Africans believed that leathers of captive birds wouldn't curl. An Englishman named Arthur Douglass broke that myth. He not only produced curly feathers from tame birds, but also devised an incubator to hatch the three-pound egg. Others quickly took up ostrich raising (some paid native girls to take turns sitting on the eggs). Traders swarmed out to the scattered farms, offering cartloads of oil lamps, stoves and feminine finery in exchange for plumes, fashionable in late Victorian and Edwardian days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Feather Merchants | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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