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...with their regular classmates, separating them only in certain subjects. A fifth grade studying reading might have three groups-one reading at third-grade level, another at fifth-grade, the rest plunging into such classics as Moby Dick and The Swiss Family Robinson. The schools are also on the prowl for such students with a special talent as the eleven-year-old girl who shows promise of becoming a topnotch composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Perishable Resource | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Essential Feeling. Although he now bases himself in Dallas, Dozier is constantly on the prowl, ranging from the bayous to the Big Bend with sketchbook in hand. Says Dozier, with a shy pride: "I can recognize any sound I hear at night and tell what kind of animal or insect made it. As I've grown older, I've gotten more interested in the architecture of how things grow. Mountains have a bony structure, just like everything else. When you realize a mountain is a moving thing, you know there is movement in everything." Having first made dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Southwest Painter | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...across the main streets, and in Oklahoma City shoppers shivered against the cold. Outside the cities and towns, over stick-straight highways and the winding side roads, fast automobiles and trucks sped on late-night runs from close-to-the-border cities in Missouri and Texas. Artfully dodging police prowl cars, they slipped into Tulsa and Oklahoma City bringing bootlegged Scotch at $7 a fifth, vodka at $5.50 and gin at $5. Admiring the tinsel, feeling the cold, buying the whisky (in gift decanters), Oklahomans knew that the Christmas season was in full swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Systematized Hypocrisy | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...physical giant, he was always conscious of being "six-foot-six in a world of five-foot-eight." He loved to drink, to argue the strange vexed state of man "until the cold grey dawn and the last milk wagon have gone by," to prowl the nighttime streets alone, reveling in his aloneness. He quarreled with everyone, then endlessly apologized, and no friendship was safe from his eternal analysis. Maxwell Perkins, Wolfe's editor at Scribner's, once pleaded long before their final break: "If you have to leave, go ahead and leave, but for Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters from Leviathan | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...University of Nebraska's College of Agriculture is thinking of sending out a special recruiting exhibit to high schools. Iowa State College has a new scholarship program that is specifically aimed at bright agriculture students. As never before, the nation's agricultural schools are on the prowl for talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Defection | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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