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Each of these teachers was a follower of Robert Pace, 37, a dynamic concert pianist and teacher, and the country's foremost advocate of group lessons. At Columbia's Teachers College in Manhattan, where he is head of piano instruction...
Programmed instruction is a new method of teaching which features careful organization of the subject matter and active participation by the student. One of its first and foremost advocates was B. F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, who has been using its techniques in Natural Sciences 114 since...
What sad-eyed Professor Begle (pronounced beagle) did was to become the foremost disseminator of math reforms in U.S. schools. As director of Yale's School Mathematics Study Group. Begle, in 1958, began a rewriting of textbooks that has since enlightened Sallys across the nation. As one consequence, Stanford stole Sally's father from Yale. Stanford now aims to Beglize itself as "a national center in mathematics education...
Died. Mei Lan-fang, 67, China's "Great King of Actors," whose willowy grace and flawless falsetto made him the foremost female impersonator in the all-male Chinese classical drama, won him worldwide applause-his 1930 U.S. tour brought him honorary degrees from two U.S. colleges-and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress...
...chat with John Kennedy. Afterward, the President played host to Chen at a state luncheon. Kennedy was in high good humor-and full of probing questions that impressed his guest. Who was the leading military man in Red China? Kennedy wanted to know. "[Defense Minister] Lin Piao is now foremost," answered Old Soldier Chen. Was it possible, Kennedy asked, to split Moscow and Peking? Chen's answer: "On small matters, perhaps, but not on really big things...