Word: stoddard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little help, largely because Tom Ewell of Owens-boro, Kentucky, is playing the patate. Mr. Ewell, as usual, makes funny faces that are both expressive and unstrained. He handles the role well enough otherwise, but his comic talents do not get much play. Lee Bowman acts Gladstone, and Haila Stoddard (substituting for Nancy Wickwire) and Murial Williams play various wives. All are competent. As the unchaste ingenue, who is never quite as interesting a character as the author seems to expect, Susan Oliver is, if nothing else, astonishingly beautiful. It might almost be worth going to see Patate (there...
...largest producer of school movies, distributes them not only in the U.S. but to 55 foreign nations. Though no moneymaker, it has as impressive a board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another big name: Chairman-elect Adlai E. Stevenson...
...Appointment of the week: Psychologist George D. Stoddard, 58, former president of the University of Illinois, to succeed Ernest O. Melby, 64, next September as dean of New York University's School of Education...
Farther north, on the Mojave Desert, Rancher Stoddard Jess has built one of the desert's tidiest agricultural arrangements. His chief crop is turkeys, 55,000 birds or more each year, and better than 100,000 poults. In a complex of freshwater ponds, he raises a million rainbow trout from fingerlings. The trout fatten on entrails from the dressed turkeys and on worms grown as a crop on the ranch. Water from the ponds irrigates fields of corn, and the turkeys are turned loose to fatten on the corn...
...Education added its own gloomy estimate of the teacher shortage: "The annual output of elementary and high-school teachers has dropped 26% since 1950, while enrollments in elementary and high schools have risen 24% and 10% respectively." ¶ Appointment of the week: Claude L. Reeves, 61, to succeed Alexander Stoddard as permanent superintendent of schools in Los Angeles. Popular and grandfatherly, Reeves got his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Southern California, joined the L.A. school system in 1921, rose to be assistant superintendent in charge of the city's 45 high schools. His chief problem: to provide...