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Report Card ¶At Barnard College in Manhattan, the undergraduate paper, the Bulletin, created a major tizzy when it appeared one morning last week with only a single frontpage editorial announcing that the entire Bulletin was out on strike. Reason for the strike: college officials were censuring the staff for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Marsupial Secrets.The female possum's habit of licking her pouch before giving birth is the source of what Dr. Hartman considers several preposterous possum legends. But for all its stupidity, the possum, in its sex life, is much like other mammals. After only 12½ days' gestation, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monstrous Beaste | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Those Old Arabs. Sam Katzman, a bouncy, bulb-shaped 51, has his own formula for keeping his earning record perfect. His five sound stages (at Columbia's dingy old subsidiary studio) are usually buzzing with assorted pygmies, giants, animals (wild and tame), half-dressed women (wild & wild-eyed), cowboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Sam | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Rhinelander has lived with General Education for five years. When he speaks about it, he slides into a chair, props his head in his hand, and looks thoughtful. "General Education," he says, "gives students a chance to do some original thinking. It presents a problem for them to wrestle with...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Phillip H. Rhinelander | 10/18/1952 | See Source »

Shivers makes certain concessions (such as the Mercury in Ford clothing) to what his constituents expect of a Texas governor, but he is not the type known to the rest of the country as the professional Texan. His hats are apt to be more nearly five-gallon than ten, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Where Everything Is More So | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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