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...Francisco two years ago, Richard Perkins, an architect's assistant, and his wife Lois, a newspaperwoman, found a way to lick the high cost of a house. They set to work to build their own, although neither had ever done much manual work before. They bought a hillside lot in suburban Tamalpais Valley and pulled on blue overalls. Working nights and weekends, they wheeled in 32 tons of gravel for the foundation, spent 13 weekends raising the framing. Eight months later, they moved into their small, modern redwood home. For their $5,000 in cash, plus their "sweat equity...
...family tried to escape to Sweden, but the Gestapo caught them and sent them to Auschwitz. There, the SS gassed Cohen's wife and four-year-old son, his parents, his only sister, and about 50 other relatives. Much of the time Cohen had to do the same manual labor as other prisoners; only part of his three years, in a series of concentration camps was spent working as a doctor. Liberated in May, 1945, he weighed 77 pounds...
...statement "a system of schools where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician, banker, industrial executive, labor executive, and manual worker have gone together at age fifteen to seventeen is something that exists nowhere in the world outside of the United States," President Conant makes no attempt to explain why he picks ages fifteen to seventeen. If he believes that the public school should influence the developing minds of future citizens, it would seem that the pupils' earlier years, probably in grammar school, would be more conducive to the class understanding President Conant desires...
...fact of the survey is that, as a group, they have done well financially. As of 1947, the median income for all American men was $2,200, but the Old Grad was making well over twice as much. Only one in 200 was unemployed; only 16% held minor or manual jobs. The rest were in business (53%), became doctors, lawyers or dentists (16%), teachers (16%), clergymen (4%), artists or scientists (1% each). The doctors were the biggest earners: over half making more than $7,500 a year. The graduates at the bottom of the economic pyramid: teachers and preachers (median...
When TIME'S Midwest correspondents met for a conference in Chicago last week, the odd sources of stories were favorite topics of conversation at formal and informal sessions. A revised edition of our correspondents' manual, written by Lawrence Laybourne, general manager of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, was distributed at the meeting. Its first sentences: "Long ago we coined an adjective-'TIMEworthy'-to describe a news story for TIME. This is a matter which has significance and interest not merely to the community or region where it happens but to all TIME...