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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ward said that the whole curriculum has been under study this past semester. There has been a consistent demand for a less rigorous theory course than Music 51, he noted. The new course will cover the elements of theory and fill the need of the students who find that Music 51 involves too much work...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Music Theory Offered For Non-Concentrators | 2/19/1958 | See Source »

...Russian high school pupils study English, only ten out of 25,000 U.S. high schools offer Russian. Meanwhile, the number of college graduates qualified to teach a foreign language has dropped 30% since 1950. In this field, said Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, "we find ourselves the most backward major nation in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wasteland, U.S.A. | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...with scores of phone calls. Sample: "I've been watching that live commercial for months just waiting for something like that to happen. It was a rare moment." Perhaps too rare for Bergeron, who was worried about his sponsor. Said he: "I only hope the Coca-Cola people find it as funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Coke Choke | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...makers will sell, a plane unless it adds to the customer's profit. Eastman Kodak, U.S. Steel, International Business Machines, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Socony Mobil Oil Co and Texas Co. all have fleets ranging from puddle jumpers to four-engined DC-6Bs and turbo prop Vickers Viscounts. They find them worth their cost many times over in shuttling men and equipment around their widely diversified operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PRIVATE PLANES ON THE RISE | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...daughter (later legitimized by her marriage to Dumas) shortly after audiences were applauding his ferocious antiseduction drama A Natural Son. Young Dumas' ferocity only caused women to swarm round him. When a young actress said to him, "Feel how my heart's beating. Well, how do you find it?", he only growled, "I find it round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Musketeers | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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