Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's all this business about youth movements? Just an excuse for going out at night and getting into trouble, implied sharp-eyed, energetic Helen Sheldon, longtime headmistress of Britain's Luton High School. Citing complaints from parents that their daughters are being led astray, Headmistress Sheldon last week plumped for a 7:30 winter curfew for girls under 15. "It is not the movements that are at fault generally," said she, "but the fact that no discretion is shown in choice, so that two or three things are undertaken at the same time. One activity and once...
...Lepsio, returning from the town, met Sheldon Lewis on the bridge. Says Sheldon, "I had a dozen Virginia reels out at a barndance this evening." Replied trigger fast Sam, "That's nothing. I had rum cokes all evening at the Merry-go-round...
...year-old Robert Mitchell Lindner, this week gives the public one of the few play-by-play accounts of a psychoanalytic treatment ever published. His book, Rebel Without a Cause (Grune & Stratton; $4) is a complete stenographic transcript of the analysis of a young criminal. Harvard Criminologists Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck call Lindner's work a milestone in criminology. It is also a pioneering study in hypnoanalysis...
...last lap of an "Art for Victory" tour of the American continents. Muralist Siqueiros (pronounced See Kay-ros), who was arrested for leading an armed attack on the Mexico City hideaway of the late Leon Trotsky which resulted in the kidnapping murder of the late Sheldon Harte, Trotsky's U.S. secretary, will visit Manhattan to do a massive outdoor mural, probably in Times Square. The mural will be painted by 15 Latin American artists under Siqueiros' direction. The subject has not yet been disclosed, but it will be part of a vast project which Painter Siqueiros...
...another street Sergeant Howard Finch (Sheldon, Iowa) found himself in a building with Germans in the basement below. He boldly hung out the window, signaled wildly to an approaching Sherman tank, then jumped back as the tank hurled five shells through the basement window a few feet below...