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...Buildup. In Denver, Mrs. Erma R. Gentle, 27, won an interlocutory divorce after testifying that her husband John spent all his money on hobbies, once exercised so diligently with bar bells that he was too exhausted to do anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Since 1945 more than 230 Baltic refugees have come to the U.S. in cockleshells even smaller than the Prolific. The Estonia, which brought Kou Walter and his wife and children to Florida, was only 47 feet long. The Erma, which sailed from Stockholm to Little Creek, Va., charting her course on a standard schoolboys' map of the Atlantic, measured 37 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Outward Bound | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Dwight P. Griswold, aid-to-Greece chief, and wife Erma each had a collection of slight cuts & bruises after a truck hit their auto in Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

This children's crusade was the result of preaching. An English teacher named Mrs. Erma Pixley deeply agreed with irate parents who protested that their children were learning little of manners and less of morals in school. The school superintendent asked Mrs. Pixley to see what she could do. She got out a 112-page booklet explaining her idea: that the intangibles should be taught along with tangibles. Mathematics classes were a good place to talk about precision, accuracy and orderliness; foreign languages, international good will; science, "reverence for the wonders of the universe and humility be fore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pixleyism | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...ERMA'S ESTONIANS IN NORFOLK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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