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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notice, while reading the Atlantic Edition of TIME (Sept. 21) in Rome, that you printed a picture of Professor Emelyanov that is not Professor Emelyanov's picture. My secretary at Notre Dame can supply you with a wide selection of good ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...fender tanks split; motor fuel washed against the bus's hot rear engine, and flames exploded into the sky. Screaming wildly, the girls struggled to get out, pushed toward the front of the bus. Professor Ernest Sixta, who had been sitting in the back, yelled, "Don't panic! Don't panic!" Bus Driver Carmen Nini opened his door, pushed out a few girls. Fighting his way through the billowing flames to the rear, he forced open the emergency doors and began shoving out others. "The heat was awful," said one girl. "I jumped to the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Bus | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

After I concluded my study of Dewey's autobiographical sketch, I found out by fortunate coincidence that he was at the time visiting professor at Harvard. So early that afternoon I went to Lowell House and knocked on the door of his room. Happily, he was in. I asked John Dewey whether he would have half an hour for an interview any time in the next few days. He very generously answered, "now." So I put to him the following questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dialogue With John Dewey | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

Walter H. Piston '24, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, announced yesterday that he will retire from teaching at the end of the academic year. Piston said he considers himself primarily a composer and will devote his full time to that upon retirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piston Plans To Quit Post At University | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

After graduating Summa Cum Laude, he began teaching at the University in 1928. Piston became an associate professor in 1938 and a full professor in 1944. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1948, and is the author of Harmony, Counterpoint, and Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piston Plans To Quit Post At University | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

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