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...chancellor, Alvarado increased his popularity among poor and working mothers by extending half-day kindergartens to full-day programs. He brought in volunteers and businessmen to work with city schools and began to combat the city's 45% dropout rate with pilot programs providing personal counseling for students. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Innovator in Trouble | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...Wendy's chain has spent more than $8 million broadcasting its "Where's the beef?" TV ads (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). By comparison, Mondale and Hart between them have spent $2.2 million on TV advertising. Has an adman's whimsy been carried too far? Said Campaign Dropout George McGovern: "I think there's enough beef in both of them, if they don't turn each other into hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Hart Stew | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...Harris was a man of great gifts, none greater than his capacity to inspire bitter hatreds. He burst upon Broadway in the 1920s, a charismatic, rather sinister Yale dropout and former pressagent convinced that he could produce and direct plays better than anybody else. He seemed to be right. By the age of 28, Harris had four hits running in the same year, including The Royal Family and The Front Page; he was earning $40,000 a week and was acclaimed as the Wonder Boy of Broadway. "His self-belief was hypnotic," said Playwright S.N. Behrman, who got his start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonder Boy | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...dollars. Several have registered gains of $100 million or more, making them, overnight, some of the richest people in the U.S. The winners in the going public game include a Korean immigrant, a former disc jockey, a onetime airplane mechanic, a theater critic-turned-stock analyst, a college dropout, an engineer-turned-stock analyst-turned-financier, and a molecular biologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Mint Overnight | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Douglas Fraser, a high school dropout and 50-year member of the UAW, may start lecturing this February in Harvard's Trade Union Program and would probably guest lecture in other schools and the undergraduate Economics department...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Former Auto Workers Leader Likely to Join Harvard Faculty | 12/2/1983 | See Source »

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