Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home on the ocean, after months by herself in a cottage in a canyon. The canyon had been bad. "I was alone," she explained. "I was terrified. But I just pretended I wasn't there. ..." The white-haired Queen Dowager of the Royal Family denied a report that she had signed a seven-year movie contract. "I wouldn't sign a seven-year contract with God," she exclaimed in her famed rich Barrytone. "No-you'd better make that 'only with God.' ... At my age it would be ridiculous...
Last week Barney, 37 and greying, turned up in the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan to report himself a drug addict. It started, said he, when he was in a Guadalcanal hospital, with shock and malaria. A couple of his hospital corpsmen friends had given him dope (not part of the services' regular malaria therapy, but a rare resort in cases of extreme migraine). As months went by, his headaches recurred; somehow (perhaps with forged prescriptions), Barney got more dope. Says he: "I got in over my head...
Esthetes & Extroverts. The practical achievements of the 13-year-old Conant-Harvard partnership have been considerable. One widely known example is last year's report on General Education in a Free Society (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). That $60,000, 267-page report, which did not even discuss Harvard until page 177, had an immediate impact on American education. It was President Conant who set the sights for that far-ranging study...
...investigating committee, spending its first twelve months studying secondary education, became convinced that high schools are much too vocational. To provide the basic education in a common language and a common set of values that American youth needs, the report recommended that every pupil spend at least half his classroom hours on English, science and mathematics, and social studies...
Leader of the attack on the proposed canon was round-faced Rt. Rev. Wallace E. Conkling, Bishop of Chicago. Cried he: "We must recognize human nature but not yield to it ..." The bishops, seeming to agree with Chicago's Conkling, voted 65-to-44 to scrap the report. But that night a special five-man committee worked until 2 a.m. on a new proposal...