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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universities to find out how they ranked American Presidents, emerged with results virtually identical to those of LIFE'S 1948 poll conducted by Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Sr. The top four: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson. The bottom two: Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding...
...think he'll come back," said G. A. Lyward...
...years of such casual administration, G. A. Lyward has rescued scores of disturbed boys for whom teachers, doctors and parents had given up hope. What is his secret? Correspondent Michael Burn decided to find out. He joined the Finchden Manor staff, eventually published a book (Mr. Lyward's Answer; Hamish Hamilton) that last week was the talk of British educational circles. Though Schoolmaster Lyward's secret is too complex to be entirely clear, he emerges from the book as one of the most unusual of living educators...
...school ties, no school hall and no chapel. There are no fixed terms or holidays, and except for bedtime and meals, which the boys cook and serve themselves, there are no fixed hours. For Correspondent Burn, one clue to Finchden lies in the word "respite"−the belief, says G. A. Lyward, "that some young people needed complete respite from lessons as such, in schools as such, so that they could be shepherded back from the ways . . . by which they have escaped for a while their real challenge...
PROCTER & GAMBLE is moving into completely new lines with take-over of Duncan Hines enterprises, which inspects, approves restaurants and lodgings, and issues guidebooks and credit cards. P. & G., whose sales hit the billion-dollar mark in the fiscal year ended June 30, also bought the Hines line of prepared cake and bake mixes from Nebraska Consolidated Mills...