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...quite a bit about the forthright world of children. To get his material, Smith culled magazines, wrote teachers, interviewed parents. His literature covers letters, short stories, poems, essays and notes passed in class. He even included the early efforts of some literary lions. At six, for instance, Novelist Jean Stafford wrote an ode to gravel...
...John) Stafford Ellithorp Jr., 61, former president of Beech-Nut Packing Co., was elected to the same post in the recently consolidated Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. (TIME, June 18). Ellithorp broke in as a chemist with the company 39 years ago, shortly after taking his B.S. at Syracuse University ('16). Still very much the chief executive of the combined companies: Life Saver Pioneer Edward John Noble, 74, board chairman...
...true stars, have been scouring the boondocks of musicmaking, in a search for new talent they can call their own. Result: the biggest crop of new names in years. So far, none of their finds is likely to jeopardize the record sales of such old reliables as Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore, but some are well worth a listen. Bethlehem puts its money on Helen Carr (Why Do I Love You) and Terry Morel (Songs of a Woman in Love); EmArcy displays the modern phrasings of Helen Merrill; Storyville has uncovered a sweet-husky voice on Introducing Milli Vernon; Liberty...
...After Stafford Leake Warren's family moved from New Mexico to Hayward, Calif, in 1899, young Staff used to run errands for the town drugstore. This emporium still stocked leeches and bleeding cups for one of the local doctors, a spry oldster who had never gone to medical school. Half a century and a couple of medical revolutions later, Dean Stafford Warren of the University of California School of Medicine at Los Angeles looked on pridefully on Graduation Day as the 33 men and three women of his second graduating class won the right to put the cherished initials...
Friendly Paw. When U.C.L.A. set out in 1946 to build a new school from the ground up, it tapped Stafford Warren, a great bear of a man (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) with a disarmingly friendly right paw. He had completed 20 years on the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical School, had spent three years as health guardian of the people involved in atomic-energy work from Los Alamos to Bikini...