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...Coming as and when it did, Whittaker Chambers' sacrifice had an incalculable value -if only to set the record straight for some of our "highschool liberals" that have been rampant since 1932. Never did any man write with such righteous lucidity. Fie on those who would measure his abasement in dollars & cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Houston last December, when his second daughter Glennalee, 17, eloped with her young highschool sweetheart George Pontikes, the son of an immigrant Greek cobbler, Millionaire Glenn McCarthy flew into the classic fatherly rage. By last week, however, time and normal events had softened the blow, and photographers caught the terrible-tempered oilman in the classic pose of a new grandfather. Glennalee had presented him with his first granddaughter. Her name: Glennalee McCarthy Pontikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mind Over Matter | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Wrote Henry: "Highschool education in America is required to handle throngs of pupils for no other reason than to keep them from roaming the streets. . . . The atmosphere is tentative, hurried, crowded and decidedly anti-intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who Said Progress? | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...issue of TIME under National Affairs you referred to the New Republic magazine as the pinko New Republic. That seems to come under the heading of smart remarks, the kind that causes teachers to send highschool freshmen to the principal's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household, where Brennan, the village postman, is required to make middle-aged puppy love to Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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