Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the first installment of LIFE'S "Crisis in Education" series "a degrading misrepresentation of today's program," referred to part of an article by Novelist Sloan Wilson (LIFE, March 24) as "a caricature of secondary education." cited charges of statistical inaccuracy brought by Dr. Harold C. Hand, University of Illinois education professor...
...conversation last week centered around when the recession would end. The answer depended somewhat on who was talking. New York's Guaranty Trust Co. took a banker's grey view: "Prospects for a definite end . . . remain highly uncertain, despite . . . comment that the bottom may be close at hand." Said the equally august Chase Manhattan Bank: "It is possible that we may see an end before long...
HELP FOR RAILS is expected from higher mail rates. Eastern lines demand 70% boost, which would stoke up revenues by $82 million a year, plus retroactive payments of $145 million. Post office has offered 15% raise that would bring rails about $17.5 million yearly. ICC will hand down decision this summer...
...Associated Harvard Clubs will hold their 61st annual meeting in the Penn Sheraton Hotel in Pittsburgh May 16 through 18. President Pusey will address the group at the Saturday night banquet. The Honorable David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh, will also be on hand to speak that afternoon at the luncheon...
...Handel, on the other hand, suffered the typical fate of most of the Orchestra's "curtain raisers" in receiving a rather perfunctory performance, enlivened only at the end by the virtuosic oboe solos of Michael Palmer and Michael Senturia. For the remainder of the piece, the playing was accurate but not very energetic, and the antiphonal possibilities of the work were not explored...