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There was nothing odd about the brown-eyed lady walking down the street of Evanston, Ill. one day last week-except that two little boys kept shrieking: "There she is! .There she is!" Adult passers-by could not help but stop and look. To most of them, Dr. Frances Horwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher on TV | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Frances Horwich achieved celebrity only this month, when she took a leave of absence as chairman of Roosevelt's education department to become founder, principal and only teacher of something called the Ding Dong School. Today, Ding Dong has hundreds of pre-kindergarten pupils, all of whom attend television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher on TV | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

To 44-year-old Miss Frances, Ding Dong answers an age-old problem: what to do with the moppets whose older brothers & sisters have just trudged off to school. Most mothers, Miss Frances thinks, are far too busy with housework to pay much attention to the children left at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher on TV | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Died. Mme. Frances Alda, 69, longtime (1908-29) Metropolitan Opera soprano; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Venice. With typical bluntness, red-haired Soprano Alda once described her marriage (1910-28) to Met Director Gatti-Casazza as "a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

Two-Room Walkup. Graduated from Bryn Mawr and determined to be a great actress, Kate pursued the theater with such intensity and such conviction as her fellow actors had seldom seen and generally resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hepburn Story | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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