Word: teens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small school (24 pupils), Britain's ultra-progressive, coed Horsley Hall in Eccleshall, Staffordshire, had had its share of the headlines. When a whipping-cane maker lectured at Horsley last fall, teen-age pupils grabbed him and flogged him with one of his own canes (TIME, Dec. 6). Later, Headmaster Robert Copping hit the news by announcing that he was founding a children's union to protect British kids everywhere from their reactionary elders. Last week, bearded Robert Copping was a headline again as a stream of shocked witnesses in the Eccleshall magistrates' court told just...
...There is nothing," declared the prosecuting attorney, "to prevent boys and girls at any hour from visiting each other in their bedrooms, and it is done." The court was told by the prosecutor that once, when one teen-aged boy dared another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl...
...Teen Club (Sat. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Premiere of a new Paul Whiteman show...
Mother Is a Freshman (20th Century-Fox) is a featherbrained variation on one of Hollywood's most cherished myths: that U.S. Moms up to the age of 40 should be able, at the drop of a mink stole, to look and act like their teen-age daughters. The plot, as silly as a schoolgirl's endorsement of a beauty soap, is just about as inventive...
...platform of London's Kingsway Hall, eight teen-age boys & girls grinned and fidgeted in their chairs. Some chewed gum, others smoked cigarettes-and no one tried to stop them. It was a great day for the kids on the platform and for the handful down front listening: they were beginning a worldwide children's crusade, and they had nothing to lose but their chains. Their leader: bachelor Headmaster Robert Copping of Britain's ultra-progressive Horsley Hall...