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Betty Cordon, the Stork Club's official G. G. No. 1, started back to school to learn to be a kindergarten teacher. Ann Sheridan, the Harvard Lampoon's onetime choice for "least likely to succeed," joined President James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...this astronomical mark, Airman Johnson picked up 20 more civilian schools for the kindergarten work, contracted to furnish them planes, pay them $18-20 for each hour flown, $52.50 a month for cadets' board & room. Intermediate schools, run by the Army, are being stepped up from seven to 15, advanced schools from eleven to 21. The Air Corps needed more mechanics, stepped its training goal up from 45,000 a year to 100,000. It also had to enlarge its training for bombardiers, gunners, navigators and observers to fit the new pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: High Jinks at Thunderbird | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...Only a tenth of the 183 modern practices were in 90% of the schools. Only a fourth wereused in as many as half the schools. One school in six had a kindergarten,one in two had a properly equipped building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years Behind? | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...learn about mass production and mass planning. So did the Army, the Navy and the British, whose frequent (and often necessary) changes in specification forced the manufacturers to alter their aluminum orders, further delayed delivery by ALCOA. Many a peewee aircraft maker was still in industrial kindergarten, where ALCOA was bound to look more like an arrogant giant than a beneficent mentor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aluminum Spot | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...small bright star at the American College of Surgeons' Clinical Congress in Chicago last week was tiny, twinkling, 77-year-old Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen. She twinkled over a two-foot, mangerlike box. With this box and a kit of surgeon's tools, she ran a surgical kindergarten, showed scores of women doctors how a Caesarean operation is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery Made Plain | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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