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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME Inc. has a special interest in a 24-page booklet published recently by Stanford University. The booklet, Better Teaching Through the Use of Current Materials,* is a report on an 18-month experimental study conducted in a selected group of California schools by Lucien Kinney and Reginald Bell, of Stanford's School of Education, with the cooperation of TIME Inc...
...TIME Inc.'s participation in this project came about when Frank B. Lindsay, chief of secondary education for the California State Department of Education, asked if we would supply copies of our magazines, MARCH OF TIME Forum films, MOT radio recordings and related study materials for the experiment. As a result, although TIME Inc. had no say in directing the study, 2,013 students in 15 California high schools (chosen to give a wide variety of localities and economic backgrounds) used TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and other publications for their basic school assignments, textbooks for collateral reading...
Although this is the first time that our publications have been used in a single, formal, large-scale project like California's, they have been used for many years in various aspects of U.S. education. TIME Inc.'s Educational Bureau, for instance, has provided, in addition to our publications, teaching aids (e.g., the TIME Current Affairs Test, monthly quizzes on the news, maps, charts) to schools and colleges all over the U.S.This material has been used extensively, especially in journalism, science, social studies and English classes...
...Wars. Between wars, he finished his undergraduate work at Yale (class of '21), stayed on to get a law degree, and, in 1926, settled down to practice in Philadelphia. He subsequently specialized in libel law. Among his clients: the Curtis Publishing Co., the Inquirer, N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc...
Passengers on the big old Boeing flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen began complaining almost as soon as she took off from Foynes, Eire. The Sky Queen's owners, American-International Airways, Inc., had provided few comforts for her nonscheduled flight to Baltimore. She carried 62 passengers and seven crew members-one of the biggest human cargoes ever crammed into a transatlantic airplane. After a night in the air, the complaints grew. The steward served nothing but orange or tomato juice for breakfast, told passengers tartly that he "had other things to do beside cook food...