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...year or more. There have been few clashes in athletics, where skill is more important than prejudice. In social activities, such "dangers" as mixed dancing are avoided by student disinterest or discretion. At John Philip Sousa Junior High School (now 72% Negro), dances have been limited to the graduation prom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quiet Along the Potomac | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...addition to the clubs, the high school itself provides a multitude of social function. From the back-to-school dance to the Senior Prom, there is hardly a week without a dance, class play, or big sports event...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Typical Midwestern High School Seeks Values Outside Classrooms | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...Senior Prom and its underclass version, the Freshmore, are the two biggest dances of the year. All-night prom parties for the upperclass event are arranged by a committee of the Parent-Teachers Association in a futile attempt to keep students from driving 25 miles to Chicago night-spots after the dance...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Typical Midwestern High School Seeks Values Outside Classrooms | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with buttons and Zippers fixed to the pages) to a growing number of teen-age novels (Girl Trouble, etc.) that compete with adult books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grinch & Co. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...invent them. The newest, dewiest invention is a plump, pleasant-voiced 19-year-old named Jennie Smith. In the year and a half since she graduated from high school in Charleston. W. Va. (pop. 75,000), Jennie, who looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy") and do a very fair imitation of throaty, top-ranking Jazz Singer June Christy. To the tub-thumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Canaries | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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