Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience that had come to watch a demonstration of hypnosis got more than it bargained for. The star attraction, Franz Polgar, was illustrating his powers on a dark-haired young woman when he was interrupted by shouted challenges from rival Hypnotist Ralph Slater (who performs in Loew's neighborhood theaters). Ushers rushed back & forth trying to restore quiet, but the meeting ended in uproar...
...thousands of New York City schoolkids, crouching on sidewalks over their games of marbles, wild life means the alley cat screeching on the back fence. The closest they get to nature is the neighborhood park. This week, a committee of New York's Board of Education released a glowing report on an experiment in outdoor education. Last summer, the board had sent 62 fifth-and seventh-graders to a LIFE camp in the lake-&-woodlands of New Jersey. Unlike previous LIFE camps, which have been holidays, this one was on classroom time...
...above), Taylor never complains about swollen enrollments. He wants as many students as he can get: "If they want to come, tell them to get in touch with us- telephone, write, or send a telegram." For adult students he can't accommodate, he has set up four "neighborhood colleges" in Louisville public libraries. He has plans for putting college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says he, "are in the Dark Ages. A general college education...
...hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his residence. Fay House saw another prophesy of things to come in the 1820's, when Sophia Dana used the Oval Room to give the neighborhood girls some schooling in subjects that the Harvard men were studying. The classes continued through several years against fearful dangers, for, as an observer remarked, "It was hardly possible to avoid ridicule in making the experiment...
...opened doors in Cambridge which otherwise I might never have discovered. I worked harder for the CRIMSON than I had ever worked before. It was not my first paper, for I had written news stories and editorials, solicited advertising, set type, printed and sold a one-man neighborhood weekly when I was twelve. Nor was it the last, for I spent my first ten years out of College as a metropolitan newspaperman. But the CRIMSON was my introduction to the world of legwork and rewrites, headlines, deadlines, and cutlines, proofsheets and makeup--a world which still seems to me fantastically...