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...chairman of the New York State Committee on Education and onetime Secretary of the Army (1947-49). What Royall said next was a severe jolt to the 800 citizens gathered in Manhattan for the state conference, a prelude to the White House Conference on Education which begins in Washington Nov. 28 (TIME, Sept. 12). The stock solution for the schools' problems is to make them bigger and better. Royall's advice: contract the educational system...
Although the HDC announced its selection of the Miller Play last spring the club last week decided to substitute the Shakespeare production. But instead of opening the play in Cambridge, the HDC will take it on tour for two weeks prior to its opening here on Nov...
...Scientific Revolution." In the lean years after World War II, a new generation of Malthusians sprouted. Between 1938 and 1946, world food production declined by 5%, whereas the population increased by 10%, and it was upon these figures that William Vogt (Road to Survival, TIME, Nov. 8, 1948) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) based predictions of mass starvation. Last week, however, the world learned that the neo-Malthusians were wrong: mankind, more numerous than ever before, had more to eat than ever before.* The rate of increase of the production of food now exceeds the rate of increase...
...Eisenhower set off a chain of events that even he might not have anticipated. By last week every state in the union, as well as Hawaii and Alaska, had either held, or was planning to hold, scores of local meetings in preparation for the big White House conference next Nov. 28. Special committees have made surveys on everything from the rise of enrollments to the shortage of teachers; thousands of citizens and educators were making a common effort, as never before, to solve the problems of the public schools. Whatever else the White House conference might accomplish, it had already...
Progressive Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck has always shown a streak of mysticism about his "far-out" music (TIME, Nov. 8). This week he gave it an airing on CBS-TV's Look Up and Live, where he played the piano and chatted with the Rev. Lawrence McMaster, 26, of the Oxford (Pa.) Presbyterian Church, jazz student and onetime disk jockey. Subject: the "theology of jazz." Excerpts...