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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty, 19-year-old Nancy Wills of Bristol, Pa., this sort of routine has become almost second nature. So it has to the eleven other U.S. girls of the Friends Service Unit at Cuautla, Mexico. The unit is one of two such Quaker-run projects in Mexico; the other, for boys, is at Yautepec. At its annual meeting in Philadelphia last week, the American Friends Service Committee, in response to invitations from local Mexican officials, approved plans to carry on its practice of augmenting year-round units with at least five summer groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friendly Persuasion | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Ambler, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Yearling's dramatic scenes are cunningly, almost too-knowingly manipulated, but they are nonetheless effective: the bear hunt, the ruinous rainy spell, Pa's near-fatal snake bite, the deer killing, Jody's perpetual wonder at a wonderful world, Penny Baxter's deep and tender understanding of his wife's and son's troubles. Underscoring all these emotion-mauling theatrics is a musical background that sounds as if it might have been recorded by the Heavenly Choir itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Mansfield, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...product of progressive education and the Wagner Act, student strikes in the U.S. were on the rise last week. Some recent strikes and issues: in Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the girls wanted to wear slacks; in New York City, against Christmas homework; in Sapulpa, Okla., for a longer vacation. Sapulpa fathers formed a united front to break the strike, applied "woodshed tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wanted: Woodsheds? | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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