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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burst of Prosperity. The uranium rush burst two years ago upon the declining old lumber town of Blind River, Ont. (pop. 2,500) with the news that Toronto Promoter Joseph Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) had quietly staked 1,400 claims covering 56,000 acres of choice mining prospects. On the map, Hirshhorn's claims formed a giant Z with its horizontal bars 30 miles apart. Within weeks, other prospectors poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with...
Family and Early Years: Born in McRae, Ga. (pop. 1,900), where his father ran the general store. As a boy he clerked in the store, took charge of the accounts when he was only 14. Graduated from the University of Georgia with honors in 1912 at 18, won a scholarship to Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, graduated there with distinction in 1914, earned enough money tutoring to travel in Europe. Served overseas as a captain in the Yankee Division in World War I, came home to marry Mary Davenport of Americus, Ga. in 1918. They have...
...hundreds of parents in Glenview, Ill., a growing (pop. 10,000) suburb of Chicago, the letter from the new Citizens School Committee was not exactly a surprise, but it was alarming all the same. "There is a crisis in the Glenview schools," wrote the committee. "It is not something that is going to happen. It is here now." Unless the town took action, the schools would go on double shifts, and many children might not be able to get into a nearby school at all. "And this," said the committee, "is only the beginning...
Parents and educators are inclined to view these un-Japanese gyrations with misgivings and even to take steps. In the city of Fukui (pop. 120,000), for instance, the educators prepared a collection of what they called "good, wholesome, invigorating" songs to be sent out to local education boards and parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink...
...World War II, the villagers of Ronchamp (pop. 1,900), in France's Vosges foothills, faced an old. familiar problem: how to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut atop a nearby hill called Haul Lieu. Hallowed since pagan days, Haut Lieu lies near the invasion route through the Belfort Gap, and in war it makes a prime military observation post. Over the centuries the chapel has been repeatedly destroyed; each time it has been faithfully rebuilt by loyal parishioners...