Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when Michael Solomon was known as just about the most contented teacher in The Bronx. His subject was Latin, and when he first started at the DeWitt Clinton High School in 1908, almost every pupil went at least through Caesar. Even as late as 1923, when he became head of the department, he could boast 16 teachers of Latin on his staff...
Last week the pupil was outdoing the old master. Adlai Stevenson's refusal to back up Texas claims to tidelands oil (TIME, Sept. 1) has given Shivers a fighting anti-Administration issue which Byrnes lacks in his home state. Shivers is making the most of it. When he announced that he wouldn't vote for Stevenson in November, Texans poured letters in on him at the rate of 1,000 a day, backed him up by an 8-1 margin. Attorney General Price Daniel, now running for the U.S. senatorial seat to be vacated by Tom Connally, also...
...classe nouvelle, each limited to 30 students, is to tailor education to the abilities of the individual. Teachers supervise every child, hold private talks with him, then with his parents. For the first time, a full psychological dossier, carefully noting his outstanding talents and troubles, is kept on each pupil...
...host to the convention, Mayor Jordan took members to nearby Glendale, where members played on the 36-bell carillon of the Episcopal Sisters of the Transfiguration. His proudest moment came when his pupil, Sister Ruth Magdalene, a onetime missionary in China who has studied for only a year, put on the leather guards, pulled up her skirts a bit so that her feet could be freer for the heavy pedals, and rang out a pair of selections. Sister Ruth Magdalene was promptly voted into the guild...
...Favorite. It took three days for all the finalists to get their hearings in Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts. By the time judgment night rolled around, the crowd already had its favorite: 23-year-old Leon Fleisher of Manhattan, a pupil of the late Artur Schnabel. In the preliminary rounds Fleisher had drawn so much applause that the presiding judge had to ring a bell to silence the audience and get on with the contest. In the grand finale, Fleisher popped a piano string in the middle of the Brahms Concerto No. 1. But instead of blowing...