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Don't Be Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Evie at Eton | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Over the years, thousands of students have known him as a hearty man who hated automobiles (he often drove a horse & buggy), carried a cane, and wore a hearing aid that sputtered so much he was affectionately called "the Buzzer." But in class, students forgot everything except the Buzzer'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Buzzer | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Last week, aiming at both sneakers and stumblers, the State Department restricted all travel behind the Iron Curtain (previously only unauthorized trips to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Red China had been banned). Hereafter, passports will be stamped Not Valid for visits to Russia and the seven Red satellites unless the traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: For Sneakers & Stumblers | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

The Boers (1,500,000 strong) are the inbred descendants of Dutch, French and German immigrants who settled in South Africa some 30 years after the Mayflower. The last big migration ended in 1707. Proud, hardy men, seeking freedom, their claim to the country is older than that of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Of God & Hate | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

The new blanks, exact duplicates of the earlier ones except for the absence of the disguised code numbers, asked questions concerning the income of the student's family, his dress habits, and his campus possessions. The numbers were stamped on with white ink on the reverse side of the polls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NY Company Mails Out New Polls Without Code | 3/25/1952 | See Source »

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