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...news sources when he came upon the name of Boston's private Speech School for Crippled Children in the phone book. He wondered whether it would make an education story for TIME. It did. Froslid reported about the school's 38-year history. its 78-year-old founder-director, Emma Tunnicliff, and its volunteer instructors who tried to help make ends meet by collecting old license plates to sell as scrap metal (TIME, Jan. 28). Since the story appeared, Boston newsmen have found their way to the school, donations by the hundreds have poured in from all over...
...death, by a diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam, of Bridgeport, Conn., and some were transferred to 78-r.p.m. disks. These, plus several other Mapleson cylinders never before released, are on a new LP put out by the International Record Collectors' Club, of which Seltsam is founder and president...
With a proud and somewhat hurt air, a group of Texas oillionaires gathered last week at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' $860,000 building-expansion program. There to wield a special silver shovel were Donors Nina Cullinan (daughter of Texas Co. Founder Joseph S. Cullinan), who is putting up more than $430,000 for a new, ultramodern, Mies van der Rohe-designed museum wing, and Mrs. Olga Wiess (widow of Humble Oil Co. Co-Founder Harry Wiess), who with other Texans, including the Jesse Jones family, contributed enough for remodeling and air-conditioning...
...centuries since the death of its founder in 483 B.C., Buddhism has had little direct impact on the Christian West. Today, however, a Buddhist boomlet is under way in the U.S. Increasing numbers of intellectuals-both faddists and serious students-are becoming interested in a form of Japanese Buddhism called...
...legendary founder is Bodhi-Dharma, "the blue-eyed monk," who came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...