Word: radford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Background for War is assigned to various departments, depending on the accent of the report that week. Frequently this department ties in directly with stories we are reporting in TIME'S regular sections. Thus, in this issue, our cover story on Admiral Radford, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, naturally has a great deal to say about U.S. strategy and Formosa. At other times, Background for War may not be immediate news, but the information it contains, we hope, will help you understand today's news better...
...touched people, prompting them to tell him what they thought. He also brought considerable training. Chicago-born Bob Doyle, graduate of Northwestern University, had been a newsman and radio writer before he entered the U.S. Navy to serve in the Pacific as senior intelligence officer to Airman Admiral Arthur Radford. After the war, he studied Far Eastern history at Columbia and Chinese at Yale's Institute of Far Eastern Languages (whose director called him one of the most brilliant students who ever attended the institute). In 1947, he came to work for TIME Inc., soon took charge of TIME...
Last year Dr. Templin decided to spend a few weeks in barnstorming each year, trying to light fires under "parents with alibis," by telling them about the educational ideas that had worked for Radford...
...moron can spend money," scolds Dr. Templin, "but it takes brains and ingenuity to get along without it." Parents of Radford girls, many of them wealthy Texans, are asked to give their daughters only $1 a week for "diversion money." The girls are required to keep their own checking accounts at the school bank from fifth grade on, are marked for proficiency in keeping track of where the money goes. Dr. Templin has no patience with parents who prefer their daughters to "marry a white-collar moron instead of an intelligent well-paid artisan." Homemaking has first priority; girls begin...
Especially Taxi Drivers. Next on Radford's priority list come good manners: "Today's geography and science may become useless tomorrow but good manners are always an asset...