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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Celebrating their new status as householders (they just moved into their very own Clarence House), Britain's matronly Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: H.R.H. Fifi | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

On the campus of Brazil's Rural University last week, the atmosphere was anything but collegiate. In black cassocks and brown robes, 41 priests and monks said their prayers at improvised altars in the dormitory halls, then went on to lectures and field demonstrations on crop rotation, irrigation and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Kilometer 47 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

No Report Cards. When Schwertz told the parents' clubs that he wanted a remedial reading class, the dads and mothers quickly agreed, though no other public school had one. They bought him a projector to show documentary movies in class, a camera so the school could make movies of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Orleans Eye Opener | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Children's Chance. Last week, though school was closed for the summer, Principal Schwertz was still busy in his office, working on his latest scheme. He wanted Beauregard to be the first U.S. grammar school to have its own radio station, to give the children a chance to broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Orleans Eye Opener | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

The 210 amateurs in last week's U.S.G.A. Public Links championship were the pick of a fierce breed of golfers who inhabit the nation's 1,800 public courses; they carry their own clubs, fight for fairway rights, and have little or no time to worry about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Anybody's Open | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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