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...into a writer's head, and which he then sets out to develop. Such an idea was TIME'S much-discussed story last year on non-books. This week's Education section has another such inspired exploration of a familiar but unrecognized phenomenon. Education Editor Robert Shnayerson got to thinking about the proliferation of organizations whose initials add up to a message-from CARE to CORE to SHAPE-and discovered that if the Greeks didn't have a word for it, they might have: acronyms. All this adds up to a recommended story this week...
...these stories are the work of Education Editor Robert Shnayerson, 34, who himself attended twelve schools as a child, ranging from extremely progressive to proper prep. He particularly recalls the four years he spent at now-defunct Manumit School at Pawling, N.Y., "a strange school on a farm. We drove trucks at nine years and plowed with tractors, slaughtered pigs and took care of the cows. But I didn't learn anything about anything." He joined the Navy at 17, for three wartime years in the North Atlantic...
Europe and the Mediterranean. After this came Dartmouth, class of '50, then LIFE. A TIME staff member since 1954, he became Education editor in April 1959, has written cover stories on James Conant and Clark Kerr. Among other reasons for being interested in Education, Shnayerson has two children, and his wife is a teacher...
Correspondents George Bookman and Mary Elizabeth Fremd began working with Government agencies in Washington. From Seattle. Bob Shnayerson reported the burgeoning picture of the Northwest from sockeye salmon to the timber boom. The general condition of Midwest business was reported by George Harris in Chicago. Fred Collins reported the automotive story of Detroit. Cleveland's progress as a major automotive and chemical center, the uranium-stock boom in Salt Lake City, the new skyscraper skyline of Denver, were parts of the big story that began to flow in to our New York editorial offices...