Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fastest-rising educator in the U.S. public-school system is a 39-year-old suburban schoolmaster who has made his career by energetically corseting the careless middle-class spread of the community-controlled school. "Too often," says Dr. George Brain, "we in America seem to mean that an equal education should be an identical education...
...Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints for the sheer joy of it in a highly emotional style, blandly ignoring the arrows of sophisticates who find his art old-fashioned and crude...
After losing his first fortune (earned as a reorganization lawyer) in the crash, Rosenberg made a second fortune from law, then turned to philanthropy. Now an 84-year-old gentleman-of-action, Rosenberg still sings out loud and clear for good causes of all kinds. Passionately devoted to his people, he has worked especially hard for displaced Jews and for Israel...
...heart also." Deeply troubled by the dream, Jerome re tired into the desert of Calchis for four long years of mys tic solitude. On his return, he learned Hebrew and then devoted the main energies of his life to correcting and im proving the Latin texts of the Old and New Testaments in Rome and Bethlehem, later translated the Bible into its most enduring edition, the Latin Vulgate. He was an ex travagant polemicist, once characterized dark-skinned St. Augustine as "a little Numidian ant." After Alaric's sack of Rome in 404, Jerome laid aside...
...hour and a half, 64-year-old "Corny" Shields talked. First, he laid down the practical tips and techniques picked up since he learned to singlehand a 28-footer as a 14-year-old on Long Island Sound and went on to become a legendary figure, a man who may well have sailed-and won-more races than anyone in the sport's history. Corny Shields spoke of the jib ("Don't trim it flat-you need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew...