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...enough to get out of the house right into his car, drive to the office and want to park near it, you'd have nothing in city after city but a big hole and an underground parking garage.'' The possibility of banning auto traffic altogether from midtown Manhattan is seriously discussed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Renaissance | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Because my son Tom has progressed rapidly since his enrollment at Midtown School of Hollywood, I question the accuracy of your article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Reiner's "special school" depicts a new low in education. The Midtown "Disneyland" is not a school: it is an excuse for people who want to learn by the made-simple method. It is an example of the chaos and purposelessness that permeates education today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...York's progressive Ethical Culture School and at Purdue. To keep his school running, he contributes about $100,000 a year toward the difference between tuition and costs. The six-acre filled ravine where the school stands and the dazzling buildings cost him a million dollars, and Midtown's impressive array of planned improvements may cost a half-million more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to the Sandbox | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...occasional student, though, is worried that a Midtown education will leave him rudderless in the hard and heavy waters of the world. Said Tom Perley, 10: "I want to be a doctor, and so next year I'm going to public school for the sixth grade so I can get used to doing homework." But the teachers of Midtown's children like the school fine. Exulted Teacher John Moran: "You know what I did yesterday? Peeled apples!" Walter Merlino advertises his own case as a cheering example. "They might not want to be organization men." he said, finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to the Sandbox | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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