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...ends meet, the retired professors have been forced to take up odd jobs. One runs the local community-chest drive, another works for the Masons, still another serves as a part-time consultant to a big Colorado cattleman. The former head of the chemistry department has worked as a printer in a Fort Collins print shop, but to supplement his monthly $37.14, his wife must baby-sit. Professor G. A. Schmidt, author of six textbooks on agriculture, has worked as an 80/-an-hour land appraiser, and Entomologist Miriam A. Palmer, an expert on aphids, receives only $39.97 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lost Battalion | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Ultra-modern Brookliners supported Claverly. "It is the mark of an educated man to be able to write as well as read printing," declared one man; a high school girl, admitting that the might not be the best hand-printer in the world, challenged any cursive writer to beat her record of 175 letters a minute...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: Out of Print | 12/2/1953 | See Source »

...railroads, coal mines, electrical industry and other such giants was an old story. But many Frenchmen were surprised at some other government activities. The book showed that the government manages music halls, theater-ticket agencies, a drugstore, a vineyard. It is the nation's biggest ship owner, banker, printer and publisher, sells most of France's phonograph records, runs most of the gambling houses. In all, by unofficial estimate, the government owns outright 167 companies, has an interest in 67 others. And it loses on some of them. On the railroads alone, the government will rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Socialism in France | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Whenever he could spare the money, which was seldom enough, Yonosuke Itakura, a poverty-stricken job printer, sent his sickly daughter Yoko from Tokyo to the hot springs in the Buddhist Temple of the Understanding Way in the mountains of Hakone. There, one day last summer, a landslide roared down the mountains burying the child, her mother and eight others beneath a varicolored rubble of clay, pumice, granite boulders and choking volcanic ash. Rescue workers searched among the debris for bodies, but before the remains of Yoko and her mother were found, the search was abandoned. Yonosuke and his sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Search | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...orange card was the winning combination of numbers, all right. Then an attendant noticed something strange: one of the numbers on the winning card was printed slantwise. Suspicious, he asked the winner to come back next day to collect her check. Then he took the card to the printer, who quickly pronounced it a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: Card Trick | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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