Word: jansen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After three years of investigating the Communist leanings of his teachers, New York City School Superintendent William Jansen totted up the score. As a result of 1950's probe, he announced, one probationary teacher was dismissed, one regular resigned, and a third teacher retired. The next year, three teachers admitted they had been members of the party, ten resigned when called for questioning, and eight were dismissed for refusing to answer questions. This year, eight more insisted on keeping mum. Last week Superintendent Jansen suspended them...
...famed 12,000-volume Victorian literature collection once owned by British Publisher Michael Sadleir. Items: hundreds of rarer "three-decker" novels and yellowbacks by such oldtime bestsellers as "Captain" Frederick Marryat (Mr. Midshipman Easy), Mrs. Henry (East Lynne) Wood and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. ¶ New York CitySchool Superintendent William. Jansen announced that, beginning next fall, his high schools will have the most lifelike atomic-energy classes ever, complete with real radioisotopes imported from the Atomic Energy Commission. Next month New York teachers will go in for some futuramic training with the course in "Radioisotopes-a New Aid to High School...
Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande (Irene Joachim, soprano; Germaine Cernay, contralto; Jacques Jansen, tenor; Paul Cabanel, bass; Etcheverry, baritone; the Yvonne Gouverné Chorus and orchestra, Roger Désormiére conducting; 6 sides LP). This recording grew out of a 40th anniversary performance of Debussy's nebulous nightshade opera at the Paris Opéra-Comique in 1942. It is now released for the first time in the U.S., and Pelléas partisans will find it well worth the wait. Recording: excellent...
...them next-to-last place in the fielding averages. They still struck out with gusto, but someone usually came up with the game-winning hit at the right time. They began running the base paths with a hell-for-leather dash. The pitchers, steadied by Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen (23 victories apiece), settled down to a routine rotation. Shortstop Dark teamed up perfectly with pepperpot Second Baseman Eddie Stanky, gobbled up double-play balls by the drove (team, total...
...pennant in a postseason playoff. The Giants, rated as red-hot contenders in spring training, had bumbled into an eleven-game losing streak at the beginning of the season, could never seem to get going again. But in mid-August, behind the standout pitching of Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, they had started to move, and won a phenomenal 37 of their last 44 games. With the pressure on, the Dodgers dropped five of their last eight games. Now they needed to beat the Phillies, even to stay in the race...