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...growth," and in his early years he had quite a case himself. Said he: "I stood many an evening on a soapbox, preaching 'Socialism, the Hope of the World.' " In 1912, while teaching at the anarchist Ferrer Modern School in New York City, he met dark-eyed Ida Kaufman, a precocious 14-year-old pupil so "sprightly" he called her Puck and later Ariel. She pursued her 27-year-old instructor relentlessly, until he "fell in love with her and kidnaped her and married her." The bride, who carried roller skates to the altar, became his lifelong collaborator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Biographer of Mankind | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...displacement of Japanese Americans in 1942 was not entirely without benefit. The Federal Government allowed Nisei to work in rural mid-America, far from the strategic areas. As a result, in 1943 the school board of St. Edward, Neb. (pop. 720), hired Peter Ida to teach in its high school. Ida was a gifted man who had a positive and lasting influence on me and my 27 classmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Controllers | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...daughters) and the wholly exotic (goblins and dream-scapes), where natural law, like the reader, is held in suspense. The time is the past indefinite; costumes indicate the 19th century, but there are references to the 1930s, and at one time Mozart can be seen working at a hammerklavier. Ida, the oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward out her window and into the sky, tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...Phileas Fogg's, the means even less down to earth. In a gossamer-thin (.004 in.) polyurethane balloon rigged with a 14-ft. by 10-ft. unpressurized gondola, famed Aeronaut Maxie Anderson, 46, set out from Luxor, Egypt, last week, along with fellow Businessman and Adventurer Don Ida, 47. Their plan: to travel eastward around the world-south of Iran and the U.S.S.R. (hostile airspace), south of the Himalayas (deadly to balloons), over the Pacific and North America to an eastern Mediterranean landing spot-in less than ten days. To complete the high-speed journey, the eleven-story-high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 23, 1981 | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Bryant's long career began in Moro Bottom, Ark. His father was a hardscrabble farmer struggling to eke out a living in the Depression South. When the elder Bryant was disabled by high blood pressure, his wife Ida kept the family going by selling vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. Young Paul perched beside her and felt the sting of disparagement from the "city kids" of nearby Fordyce (pop. 3,206). He first won social acceptance as a fiercely combative football player for the state-champ Fordyce Redbugs, and football has since made him the guest of Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football's Supercoach | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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