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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preoccupying Issue. In 1946 Zook was appointed head of the President's Commission on Higher Education, supervised the compiling of its long-range, five-volume report which, among other things, strongly urges federal aid to education (TIME, Dec. 9, 1947 et seq.). When Zook leaves his job to write "a couple of books" and do some work for UNESCO's International Organization of Universities, Arthur Adams is sure to find that federal aid to education is still one of the A.C.E.'s most preoccupying issues. Said President-Designate Adams last week: "I'm not worried about...
Last fall, Doyle went to Indonesia to cover the Dutch exodus and the rise of a new nation in the troubled islands (TIME, Nov. 14 et seq.). He liked the young, eager, inexperienced Republican leaders, thought they had a fair chance of establishing orderly government amid the ruins of colonial rule and the wreckage of war. After several months in Hong Kong and Siam, he went back to Indonesia to see how the new republic was getting...
...York's Jamaica race track next day, Derby Candidate Hill Prince (TIME, April 17 et seg.) put on a show of his own. With Jockey Eddie Arcaro holding him close to the rail, he took the lead at the head of the stretch, went on to win the $49,050 Wood Memorial in a closing rush. Hill Prince's time of 1:43.6 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth Wood was the second fastest on record (fastest: Count Fleet's 1:43 in 1943). Arcaro kept Hill Prince moving after the finish, worked the bay the full...
...course, self-criticism gives good material to [our] enemies. You are perfectly right about that. But self-criticism also gives material (and a push) for our advancing, for competition, for shock brigades, et al. The negative side is covered and super-covered by the positive...
...Flanagan had not flared into fashion without causing some embarrassment here & there. Victor Recording Star Tex Beneke (TIME, June 2, 1947 et seq.), who had inherited the Glenn Miller mantle in the first place, was hastily trying it on again...