Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days ago I received an interesting letter from one Kurt Maeder. a political refugee from East Germany. Maeder wanted to reinstate a TIME subscription which he had bought back in 1946 when he was a German prisoner of war in Fort Meade, Md. The subscription was interrupted when he went home to Soviet-occupied Germany...
...college presidents, James E. Walter of Congregational Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga. is probably the most tenacious. Since he first accepted a $500-a-month gift from an educational foundation started by antiSemitic, anti-Negro onetime Judge George Armstrong of Fort Worth, Texas (TIME, March 12, 1951, et seq.), students and facultymen have demanded again & again that he resign. Last week, as the academic year closed, President Walter was in the same old cauldron again...
Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...
...gold at Fort Knox was no more zealously guarded last week than Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's long-awaited book. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. At the University of Indiana in Bloomington, newspaper and magazine writers were allowed to pore over galley proofs on one condition: none but their editors must be told what is in the book until Aug. 20. Summaries of not more than 5,000 words may then be published. Finally (the exact date is still a secret), Kinsey (and W. B. Saunders Co.) will publish the book itself...
Vocational Guidance. In Fort Worth, arrested after printing and cashing $7,000 worth of counterfeit payroll checks, ex-Convict Ralph W. Hedrick told police he had learned his trade in the West Virginia Penitentiary's printing shop...