Word: monthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come from living. What you are in life, you are onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted to be the roller-skating champion of the world, and those damned singing lessons interfered with my practice...
...proposal to get the public to share in the responsibility for TV programing last week highlighted the networks' attitude toward their urgent problems. One night last month Board Chairman Sigurd S. Larmon, of Madison Avenue's topflight Young & Rubicam ad agency, suggested to the major network presidents that a committee of responsible citizens be set up to make recommendations for TV reform. The response of NBC's Robert Sarnoff and CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton were made public last week. NBC took up the adman's idea with enthusiasm, expanded it into an elaborate proposal...
...many a classroom teacher -the seeming fondness of administrators for more and more paper work. Fox Lane teachers have always submitted outlines during the summer of what they plan to teach in the new year. Last year they also began filing achievement summaries at the end of each month, plus a plan for the next week. This year, when the teachers were ordered to tack on another week, Worley refused. His lessons, said he, were geared to the daily attitudes of his students. Submitting a detailed plan was "meaningless, a sham, hypocrisy...
Barnstorming Jewish congregations in the U.S. this week was a dynamic, coffee-skinned Indian from Bombay. The Honorable Baruch Bension Benjamin first came to the U.S. last month for the launching of Conservative Judaism's new World Council of Synagogues, at which he represented one of the oldest and oddest Jewish communities in the world. Its name: Bene Israel (Sons of Israel...
Rabbi Wanted. The 21,000 Bene Israelites, most of them in the Bombay area, are the largest single group in India's small (25,400) Jewish community. There are 28 Bene Israel synagogues, whose congregations will hold their first assembly in Bombay this month. After living and intermarrying for centuries with the Hindus, Bene Israelites practice many Hindu customs. Most of them eat no beef, in observance of the Hindu prohibition against slaughtering cattle. They break the bangles of a widow when her husband dies, and remove from her neck the mangal sutra (auspicious thread) of black beads that...