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Last Date tells the sobering, to-the-point story of Nick, high-school athlete and hot-rod addict, and his pretty girl friend Jeanne, who take Nick's souped-up jalopy for a reckless joy ride between dances, end up in a head-on collision which kills Nick, permanently disfigures Jeanne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Last Date | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Alec Bright was eleventh, Irv Fisk twelfth, Jim Lawson thirteenth, Rod Nordbloom fourteenth, Gordon Abbott fifteenth, Len Wilson seventeenth, and Dwight Black twentieth. Nineteen members of each team competed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track, Lacrosse Squads Down BC, BLC; Skiers Upset Green | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Jerry Paulus strokes the third crew, with Charlie Robinson the seven-man, Bob Green at six, Al Rieselbach at five, Harry Gibson at four, Bruce Morgan at three, Steve Heartt at two, and Rod Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Love Names Tentative '53 Boatings | 4/11/1950 | See Source »

Spare the Rod. Over the years, the female teacher, as reported by U.S. authors, never seemed to improve. There were a few "sweet young things" in popular novels (e.g., Rose Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Words | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel, was "a plump, soft, foppish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Words | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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