Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Schacter's idea had mushroomed into the most high-pressured culture drive Kentucky had ever seen. Alben Barkley was in on it, and so were Happy Chandler, Senators Earle Clements and John Sherman Cooper, Novelists A. B. Guthrie and Robert Penn Warren. Chairmaned by Mrs. Barry Bingham, the energetic wife of the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the campaign was out to put Parnassus on wheels, get no bookmobiles circulating through the state. This week, in Nelson County, the first one was about to go into operation...
...bookish, spectacled Professor Sweet is considered something of a revolutionary: he thinks that elementary Latin teaching is all wrong, and he is doing his best to prove it. He preached his doctrine at Philadelphia's William Penn Charter School, finally won a professorship at Michigan. Last year the Carnegie Corporation decided to let him carry his crusade even further, gave him a grant for a special summer Latin workshop...
Annenberg started an annual music festival, took over the Philadelphia Forum, gave scholarships in his father's name to college students, bought the city sports Arena and, two months ago, a block-square piece of property in Penn Center (TIME, June 1) to build a community transportation center. At New Jersey's Peddie School, where he prepared for college, Publisher Annenberg proudly recalls that his classmates voted him "most likely to succeed." But, adds he modestly: "I started with an awful lot handed...
...Sheraton Corp., which has 30 hotels in 24 cities, will build a $14 million, 1,000-roorn, air-conditioned hotel in Philadelphia's new Penn Center (TIME, June 1). Planned to be 20 stories high, it will be the first new large hotel to be built in Philadelphia in almost 30 years...
...Eisenhower Cabinet, his former trustees apparently made up their minds about one thing: they wanted a president who would not be perpetually running for the presidency of the U.S. Last week the university finally announced its choice: 49-year-old Physicist Gaylord P. Harnwell, who has been on the Penn faculty since...