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...Teresa Arceo threaded her way through the labyrinthian corridors of a government building in Mexico City to the appropriate office, where her son Luis was to take his examination for a radio-television announcer's license. In the absence of a baby sitter, the anxious mother brought along her baby daughter Janette as well. During the interview, the overtrained Luis muffed some of the questions; but his precocious, farina-fed sister belted out the answers in such clear, bell-like show-biz tones that the licensing board turned from the eleven-year-old Luis and licensed Janette, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tot Telecasters | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...Harvard, which requires three achievement tests (most colleges ask none), the applicant can skip English if he is weak in it. "Where does [this] leave the teacher of senior English? Completely out of the running." And so Marson quit to avoid being little more than "a class room baby sitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Teacher Speaks | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...Atlanta census taker climbed to the top of a flagpole to count Flagpole Sitter Odell Smith, and in California one hard-working enumerator discovered a murder victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: One, Two, Three .. . | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...paint the cover portrait, the editors chose one of Australia's most illustrious painters: William Dobell, 60. whose bold, imaginative style has won him the New South Wales National Art Gallery's Archibald Prize for portraiture three times. Painter Dobell found Prime Minister Menzies a "good sitter," reports that they chatted about friends, other artists and a mutual lumbago during their sketching sessions. Viewing the finished product, a friend remarked that Dobell had captured Menzies' "supercilious look." "No," corrected Dobell, "I've got his disdain-for-critics look." Gruffed Menzies himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

Exchange Program. In Laramie, Wyo., when University of Wyoming Student Mrs. Bonny Rininger asked for a baby sitter so that she could take her final exam, her professor obliged, minded the baby while mother scored 93 on the exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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