Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LOYAL K. KING PASADENA, CALIF...
...trouble in the last three or four years. In Minneapolis, as a superintendent of schools with "progressive" leanings, he fought in vain to win a bigger budget, finally quit in frustration over "the neglect and mistreatment of public education ... in Minneapolis" (TIME, May 3, 1948). Last week, as Pasadena's superintendent, Willard Goslin was deep in another...
...year job in 1948. Most Pasadenans conceded that their schools would need some streamlining, but some oldliners were hardly ready for the type of streamlining Goslin proposed. When he asked for pre-season teacher-training, his board voted it down as frivolous and too expensive. When he suggested that Pasadena set up summer-school camps, citizens howled that the scheme smacked of collectivism. When he backed a 50% boost in the school tax, Pasadena thundered "no" at the polls by a vote...
...game, and was one of two teams eligible to go to the Rose Bowl. The other eligible team, Ohio State, had been beaten by Minnesota. The Minnesota team was well aware that if they won the rest of their games they would be the choice to go to Pasadena. I was in Minneapolis at this time, and I know, through conversations with members of the team, that the Rose Bowl was the prize ambition of this senior-dominated squad...
Commanding the four Shooting Stars, Major Evans G. Stephens, a Texan, and his wingman, Lieut. Russell Brown of Pasadena, Calif., saw two Communist jets pull out of a dive 50 miles south of the Yalu and turn toward the river at the Americans' altitude, closing fast. Said Stephens afterwards, "Brown and I were between the enemy jets and the river. I called to the rest of my flight to come on up-we have two of them cornered...