Word: parent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well in the red, Selecciones helps to reduce the unwieldy large profits of its parent magazine. But in March 1942, Selecciones' ad rates, now based on a circulation of 100,000, will be boosted from $360 to $630 a page, and Publisher DeWitt Wallace thinks he may break even on his contribution to Pan-American cultural relations...
Seven U.S. colleges this year join 93 private schools in selling education on the installment plan. Devised by a grey-haired businessman, Rudolf Neuberger, the plan may enable many a parent, hard hit by soaring income taxes in World War II, to send his children to a good school. It may also save many a school from the financial disasters which have overtaken Britain's schools since war began (TIME, April...
Tuition Plan, Inc. is patterned after commercial installment systems. A parent signs a contract with a school, which sells the contract to the agency, and in return receives its full tuition price at the beginning of each term. Tuition Plan sends the parent a monthly bill (adding 4% for its services), collects the money in eight installments. Chief difference between Tuition Plan and an automobile credit company: if the customer fails to pay, the credit company can repossess his car, but Tuition Plan cannot foreclose on the child...
...conference, which adheres closely to the theme, will include an address by Miss Lynd, co-author of "Middletown" and four panels of discussion. Panels are "Encroachments Upon Democracy in Education," "Teacher Welfare," "Workers in Education," and "Parent Responsibilities...
...Baker's English 47 confined itself to the theory of writing plays, it could remain in the family. Theory, however, is of little value without constant testing in workshop productions. Harvard did not agree, so Baker took his Workshop to Radcliffe and developed it there until the skeptical parent was finally convinced in 1913. Stage was no longer a child. Baker modestly taught drama to such budding pupils as Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, S. N. Behrman, George Abbott and Eugene O'Neill, when, in 1924, Edward S. Harkness offered to donate a completely equipped auditorium to the University. This time...