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Learning was founded by J. Vincent Drucker, 31, a marketing-research specialist and son of Peter Drucker, the management consultant, economist and educator. Three years ago, Vincent decided that "teachers, particularly innovative ones, thought of themselves as isolated, as underexposed to new ideas." He managed to raise $1.2 million to begin publication. As editor, he hired Frank McCulloch, 53, a veteran of TIME and LIFE magazines. Says McCulloch: "A child comes to school with certain information, with feelings, with notions about life. It's the teacher's job to make the child more curious -not to treat...
Despite its price ($10 for nine issues a year), Learning has prospered since its first issue in November. Its advertising, averaging 14.6 pages per issue, is slightly below Drucker's original projections, but its paid circulation of 120,000 subscribers is slightly above. More than 99% of its mail from teachers has been favorable. Learning has even won praise from a competitor, David W. Cudhea, managing editor of Saturday Review of Education: It is, he says, a "bright new penny in the field...
...FRANKLIN DRUCKER, M.D. Los Angeles...
...Cover: Cartoon in watercolor with ink, by Mort Drucker, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine. For his first TIME cover, Drucker portrays the G.O.P.'s King Richard (1) with his trusty knight errant, Sir Spiro the Agnew (2). In New York, wearing Spiro's livery, James Buckley (3) joins Richard Ottinger (4) in assailing Charles Goodell (5), who already feels the weight of Sir Spiro's spiked mace. In the heartland of the realm, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio (6) is threatened by the ax of Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims...
...most spectacular high jinks of Women's Lib have taken place in The Netherlands. The Dutch fighters, many of them chic and in their 20s, call themselves Dolle Minas, or Mad Minas. The name comes from the appellative that was usually applied to Wilhemina ("Mina") Drucker, a Dutch 19th century suffragette. The Dolle Minas have mirth as well as method in their madness. To attract attention, they burned a corset in front of Mina's statue in Amsterdam. Then they marched through the city and defiantly pinned bright pink ribbons across the portals of men's public...