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...veteran playwrights who have dabbled in the movies before-Robert Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives) and Samson Raphaelson (The Jazz Singer, 1952 version)-but they seem to be writing down to the movies. While they occasionally use words of three syllables, the ideas are generally kindergarten. The story tells of an ambitious young playwright (Tom Morton) who tries to make the big jump from the Lower East Side to Broadway. But while romancing the theater, he neglects his small-town girl (Mary Murphy), who begins to pay attention to a hardware dealer with a soft heart (Herb Shriner...
...curriculum in January, Brown's president Henry M. Wriston charged that "most textbooks are hardly worth reading. If they are not barren of ideas, they are impoverished in that respect. The minds of freshmen need to be awakened to a new adventure. The great mistake in American education from kindergarten through graduate school has been an underestimation of the capacity of students...
...until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald toured the U.S. three times before he was out of knee pants. He didn't see the inside of a school until he was ten and enrolled in a Hollywood kindergarten. By then, death had begun to stalk the O'Connor family. Today only Donald, his mother and his 47-year-old brother Jack are still alive. Donald, who is separated from his wife, Actress Gwen Carter, has a six-year-old daughter named Donna...
...education is expensive. Since there will be no mass lectures or I.B.M.-corrected examinations, Brown figures that its professors will be able to take on only one course at a time. To President Wriston however, the price is not too high. "The great mistake in American education from kindergarten through graduate school," says he, "has been an underestimation of the capacity of students . . . The minds of freshmen need to be awakened [to] a new adventure...
...club, Carlos Rivera was planning to teach his techniques this spring in nearby towns, and next summer at New Mexico Western College. With 1,672 of El Paso's first-and second-graders already learning two languages, Rivera was glancing fondly at next year's kindergarten pupils, who will learn their "Pasen ustedes" along with their "Excuse me, pleases...