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While his first building was being put up, Starr and his first two pupils slept in a hayloft near by. Soon he was getting 1,000 applicants a year. Most were sent by judges, after being tried for such crimes as robbery, assault, attempted murder and rape. The rest were problem boys whose parents could no longer handle them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Bad Boys | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Seat. In Munnsville, N.Y., Farmer Wesley Bolin slid down a rope from a hayloft, set off matches in his pocket, watched his barn burn to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...valley below Tanglewood's Victorian-gabled main house, Guernsey cows grazed amiably around the dairy barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tanglewood, U.S.A. | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Since Great-Grandfather birched Grandfather for sneaking into the hayloft with a yellow, blue and green wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick on Deck, worrywarts have viewed U.S. reading habits with alarm. Last week Common Sense magazine toted up some habits. Sold each month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whadaya Read? | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...before he could even think of stepping into a ring with a Billy Conn or a Joe Louis. Step One was to put him on a full-time fighting basis. Until now, the pride of Yorkshire had worked all day in a Doncaster railroad shop, trained nightly in a hayloft. Since there is no one left in England capable of warming him up, Step Two was a tour of the U.S. One of Manhattan Promoter Mike Jacobs' agents was London-bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Britain's Best | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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