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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Funny & Serious. Impetus for the series came from the late Texas Publisher-Philanthropist Clyde E. Palmer, a loyal McGuffey old grad. The Palmer Foundation is underwriting $200,000 of the capital costs of the series, gets in return a 4% royalty. American Book started the series in 1956 with readers for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, this summer brought out books for the first three grades. In 1959: volumes for seventh-and eighth-graders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Modern McGuffey | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Married. Lilli Palmer, 43, German-born actress of stage (Bell, Book & Candle) and screen (Body and Soul, Notorious Gentleman); and Carlos Thompson, 34, Argentine-bred cinemactor (Flame and the Flesh); she for the second time (her first: Actor Rex Harrison), he for the first; in Küsnacht, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 30, 1957 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...objections to BCG are based on doubts of its safety and effectiveness, plus the complaint that it invalidates the tuberculin skin test.* Dr. Carroll Palmer of the U.S. Public Health Service found that among 50,000 young people in Puerto Rico, the vaccine cut TB by only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: TB Vaccine: Pro & Con | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...half years after his wife's death, Diefenbaker began once more to see his old friend from Wakaw days-Olive Freeman Palmer, by then the widowed mother of a grown daughter, and assistant director of guidance for the Ontario Department of Education. In December 1953 they were quietly married in Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Prairie Lawyer | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...handling can work with the heaps of celluloid that lie hoarded in film vaults. Last week NBC began showing how the same technique can pay off in an exciting sports show, The Big Moment (Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Put together by Hearst Metrotone News experts with Sportscaster Bud Palmer as host-narrator, the first of the half-hour series presented a fast-moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War Admiral. For change of pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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