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...careful to keep its 19th Century ivy rustling. It is particularly proud of its young (42) president, who was only 33 when he got the job; of its flying field and its curricular course in practical aeronautics, soon to be resumed after a wartime lapse; of its seven-year-old, widely respected literary quarterly, The Kenyon Review, edited by Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom, a member of the college faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kenyon Kickoff | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...question was who should spank the child, mother or father? Said seven-year-old Maryann Maskey: "The mother should do it. She's home most of the time and knows the child really tried to do good-an', an', besides, she can spank more lighter than the father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Juvenile Jury | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...best performance last week was that of a mute who didn't sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unblessed by the Met | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...costumes, speak 225 languages, and follow highly individual patterns of behavior. An Indian is free to sleep on the sidewalks of Madras when he feels tired, or to declare himself a saint and sit waiting for disciples by the burning ghats of Benares; or to send out a seven-year-old child with a dead baby dangling from its hand to beg in Calcutta's Howrah railroad station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Near the village of Neuhaus, Germany, exActress Emmy Sonnemann Göring lived in a three-room porter's lodge with her seven-year-old daughter Edda. Once Mrs. Göring had been Germany's most spectacularly wealthy woman; now she said tearfully: "I don't know what will become of Edda and me. But there is no use discussing that. What matters is that I haven't the companionship of my husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Wives | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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