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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compare Dr. von Braun's salary of $16,000 a year with the average annual income of $20,000 of a call girl (as noted in your March 3 Medicine story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...under his arm, Comic Danny Kaye, guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic for its Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye: "It's the greatest feeling of neurotic power in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...session began, Judge Don Young told the defendants that they could avoid punishment if they obeyed the order (two other sets of Amish parents obeyed last month, turned a boy and a girl over to the children's home, let them go to school). Replied stocky, 46-year-old John Hershberger: "I couldn't give up my son. It is against my scriptures.'' Defendants

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Caesar & God | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Within a few weeks Math Teacher Sterling Cooper, 26, had torpedoed the high school's four best skiers below C level. Among those sunk: 14-year-old Sharon Pecjak. the best junior girl racer for miles around and daughter of Schodl Board Chairman Rudy Pecjak. The following week the four were to ski in elimination races to determine the area's squad for the National Junior championships. Although they would not race under school auspices, Superintendent William Speer held that eligibility rules covered the elimination races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School & Skis | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...great quilts of priggish guff. Wolfgang found that the bully was esteemed by the teachers. When one pupil from Hamburg Sunday-punched a little fellow half his size, the smaller student was denounced for having behaved in a "provocative" manner. Wolfgang was reported for having remarked that some Spanish girl students were very pretty; this kind of frivolity would not do. The result was an episode recorded like "My First Communion" in a pietistic work-"My First Self-Criticism." He duly denounced himself, but he could never quite feel the same again about little Emmi. who had turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Red's Schooldays | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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