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...Deputy Mayor Henry Epstein of New York City tossed a group of local educators two questions for which no one seemed to have any answers. "How is it," he asked, "that the same youngsters who flunk shop courses are able to 'soup up' old jalopies with hand-tooled carburetors? And why are boys failures at making book ends but successes in crafting zip guns out of scrap...
...plans for spending his money usefully is the building of a whole new town near his uranium holdings at Blind River, Canada. "This is going to be an esthetic town, laid out for growth," he says. "I've got a Henry Moore and I'm getting an Epstein, a big one, for the square. I'll have a museum there, too. Maybe the miners won't be different because of the beauty, but their kids will." For Manhattan, he is toying with the idea of starting "a salon where any artist could hang his paintings. Young...
...years old this week, is a monument to the fact that monuments can be lovely. His conservative colleagues, e.g., Paul Manship, Oronzio Maldarelli, stick to classical patterns, yet come no closer to Praxiteles than a mannequin looks like a man. More radical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein, on the other hand, often go in for deliberate ugliness of a sort calculated to give ordinary park strollers the heebie jeebies. Milles' monuments are both conservative and alive, both popular and poetic...
...faculty winners are: Kiaus W. Epstein '48, Instructor, to lecture in History at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, for research at the London School of Economics, University of London; Theodore M. Mills, research associate, Laboratory of Social Relations, for research at the University of Oslo; and Karl G. Kohn '48' teaching fellow, department of Music, for research in Music, University of Helsinki...
...Alarmed by a report by Deputy Mayor Henry Epstein that "in June 1954, 20,000 New York City children, from the fourth to the sixth grades alone, showed a reading retardation of two years or more," the city school board announced that the old policy of automatic promotions...