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...quite sure, but the largest single group is in California. "We can't explain that, either," says Crothers. "Maybe it's because the program reaches the West Coast at 9 in the morning." One California station manager, after listening with a puzzled frown to Invitation, replaced it with a local show. He received only 37 letters of protest, but was so impressed by the names of the writers' - educators, judges, doctors and other leading citizens - that he quickly put Invitation back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The 69th Most Popular | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Politics, like education, in Austria is a profession of old men. Today there is no room for the young, nor are young intellectuals interested in it. University people frown on non-scholarly work and no field more than politics. A few are sincerely concerned. A young editor of the Catholic weekly in Vienna told me, "I am glad I had the Nazi experience, for I feel that only the people who knew it can understand its evil and tell others." But the tendency of the upper class youth is to shake their heads and ask, "What...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: Conquered Europe Rebuilds in Troubled Ruins | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

Jobs for Tag Stickers. Over Berlin's ruins the ivy still grows, but long stretches of the city's streets have been cleared. Street-corner lawns that had been stomped into shabbiness flourish again. Under the grey frown of gutted facades on the Kurfűrstendamm are rows of fancy-front, one-story shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Shape of Nothingness | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Female emancipation" is Amory's term for the joint education policy of the College and Radcliffe, and the addition to University faculties of women instructors. Amory explains that Harvard authorities frown on the word "coeducation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holiday Says College Is 'No Longer Just for Bostonians' | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...cycled 12½ miles in 57 minutes, ran 215 yards in 43 seconds, walked five miles in 74 minutes. Then she heaved a javelin 59 feet. She got her medal. She also drew a frown from her children who didn't approve of such behavior in a woman of 72. "It's not grandmotherly," they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: A Medal for Grandma | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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