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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will build the new school on a wooded Riverdale plateau overlooking New York's Hudson River. He plans to have 600 teen-age students: 200 from New York City, 200 from the rest of the U.S., 200 from Europe, Latin America, Asia. In ten polyglot residences he will mix them well, hopes to transform them into citizens of the world. Says he: "This won't be an international school. 'International' has bad connotations these days. We want to transcend nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tomorrow's Children? | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Reached for comment last night, David M. Little '18, Master of Adams House, stated that the recent ruling would not affect Adams or other Houses with adequate vestibule space. "We are all agreed," he said, "that eating and selling should not mix; but the problem of separating them faces only those Houses with isolated dining halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Vote To Keep Ban On Ticket Sale | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression by an occasional broad and incongruous touch. The borderline between burlesque and satire is a hazy one; nonetheless, the two don't mix well. A few enlightened omissions from "Afraid of Happiness" could have avoided the combination of these techniques and made the story into a consistently amusing piece, instead of an entertaining but periodically annoying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 3/19/1947 | See Source »

Rodzinski reached the U.S., the first thing "Stokie" did was to run his fingers through Rodzinski's slick and parted hair, "to give me a conductor's look." He did much more in the next four years, and Rodzinski is "incredibly grateful." But their temperaments did not mix well. Stokowski and Arthur Judson helped line up the run-down Los Angeles Symphony for Rodzinski. No admirer of Stokowski's lushed-up style, he says that Stokowski "plays music sexually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Master Builder | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Actually he is an amiable, approachable man with a dry, friendly wit, who likes to talk and mix whiskey with his soda. He is not a cold fish; nor is he filled with feverish excitement. His temperature is normal. He is a self-disciplined man who is very sure of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Age of Taft | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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