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Alice's Present. It has been growing ever since. Late in the 19th century, the Natural History section was moved to Kensington, and today the Bloomsbury institution consists of two main parts:' the Library, with its Reading Room, and the Museum. The library, Britain's national bookshelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knick Knackatory | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

¶ In Seattle's Foster Junior-Senior High School, says Ralph Burkhard, "there are enough new things to hang a guy . . . But we based everything on how children would want to be treated." Daylight flows through photoelectrically controlled skylights, and this "provides new uses for window walls. Since they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oceans of Piffle | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

He walked through the muddy, stinking, raucous market areas, holding his hand on his wallet, buying cheap souvenirs. There were fur caps and fur-lined boots, little carved figures, thousands of leather holsters and wallets, brass ashtrays and gaudy silk antimacassars, embroidered with the word "Korea," and the year. Behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: How the Ball Bounced | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

3) Content is the important thing. It is conceivable that a book by a Communist author should be put on the shelves if it serves the ends of democracy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Burning Question | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

By last week the works of 25 or 30 authors had vanished from the USIS bookshelves, and some Germans chuckled wryly at the news. To Americans, Germans frequently remarked: "We had to go through this under Hitler." The order came from the State Department, just before Senator Joe McCarthy'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Verboten Volumes | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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