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Home to Teach. Bernadete never dreamed of becoming a national figure when she returned from Natal's high school eight years ago to teach in her native village of Currais Novos (pop. 2,643) in Rio Grande do Norte state. She was 17 then, young enough to take part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Miracle of Bernadete | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

After graduating from Harvard ('30), he worked as a reporter and adman for the New York Times and Syracuse Post-Standard, did public relations (forthe Panama Canal), ran the Casa Grande (Ariz.) weekly Dispatch for two years before joining the Navy, then sold it at war's end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Yankee in Dixie | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

NBC has lined up more Spectaculars (some 75) than ever, and most of them will be in color. On the list: The Skin of Our Teeth, with Mary Martin, Helen Hayes, George Abbott; a musical version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with Frank Sinatra and Eva Marie Saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $75 Million Package | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

- Gale Benton Aydelott, 41, was named executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (his predecessor was Alfred Perlman, who moved on 18 months ago to become president of Robert R. Young's New York Central). Son of a railroadman and educated at the University of Illinois, Aydelott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

To the village folk, the Marquis and Marquise de Vogüé were almost legendary figures. He held one of the oldest titles, owned one of the biggest fortunes in France. Like his illustrious forebears, he was a fastidious man of the world, loved to travel, to hunt on his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Leap Over the Turrets | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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