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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last fall, after the foundation's success with teaching French to children, the Lakewood public schools tentatively introduced Spanish, French and German to a selected group of seventh-graders. The program is working out so well that next fall these languages will be offered to all seventh-and eighth-graders. What is more, School Superintendent William B. Edwards last week acknowledged that they may eventually be taught in the elementary grades, just as the Lakewood parents requested a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After-School Scholars | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 25, the Chief Justice's youngest daughter, who recovered from a severe polio attack eight years ago, and Stuart Brien, M.D., 36, Beverly Hills obstetrician and gynecologist: their second child, first daughter, Earl Warren's eighth grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Heather. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Then there was the Ivy League. The Crimson absorbed five straight losses from Cornell, Columbia, princeton, Penn, and Yale in a frustrating show of futility. And last weekend came the debacle at the Intercollegiates in New York, where the varsity finished eighth out of 11 teams, winning only 32 of 90 bouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

...varsity fencing team finished eighth out of eleven schools in the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championship last Friday and Saturday with an overall record of 32 wins and 58 losses. The contest was held at the Hotel Concourse Plaza in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Fail | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Although the varsity finished in eighth place after the second and third rounds, they were tied with Cornell and Pennsylvania for fifth after the first round on Friday. In addition, the team beat Columbia, who placed third in the tournament, in all three weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Fail | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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