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...letters TIME'S editors receive from readers all over the world, there is a batch every now and then from the half-industrial, half suburban city of San Leandro, Calif, (pop. 64,714), 17 miles from San Francisco. The reason, we learned last week, is an attractive schoolmarm named Adele Fridhandler Levine, 30, who teaches the popular world-affairs course at San Leandro High School. Her students' main textbook: TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
Cheers to Schoolmarm Gayle Graner. Too bad she can't use the same tactics on Roscoe's parents for the audacity of their $2,500 suit...
...presented, and everyone storms ahead. No idea is too fantastic; a cardinal rule is that no one laughs at an idea. If anyone is thoughtless enough to say "It won't work," he is sternly reminded that such remarks are taboo by the chief brainstormer. who clangs a schoolmarm's bell at him. Anyone is free to "hitchhike" on an idea, i.e., pick it up and improve on it. The result is usually that anywhere from 60 to 150 rapid-fire ideas are suggested. The vast majority are usually as impractical as the suggestion by one woman that...
Virginia's famed Mrs. Chipsian Lucy Madeira Wing, 83, resigned after 51 years as headmistress of suburban Washington's genteel Madeira School. Schoolmarm Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
...will be a supermodern island of U.S. business efficiency in the old world. Gone will be the curlicued wrought iron balustrades, the clutter of desks on the ground floor, the buckety old elevators so useful to a lonely tourist trying to strike up an acquaintanceship with a pretty Iowa schoolmarm. In their place will be $750,000 worth of electronic gadgets, air conditioning, an escalator and labor-saving business machines. Last week, as traditionalists complained, American Express President Ralph T. Reed explained: "Travel has become big business, and we can serve the American public today only by adopting the most...