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...instruction book. Three years later, he started a small combo that played the cheaper clubs around St. Louis. The receptionists at four recording studios rejected him before he finally signed with Chess Records. After Maybelline, he went from a $14-a-night stand in East St. Louis to a thousand-dollar matinee in Cleveland...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Chuck Berry: Old-Time Music Grows Old | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

MOST STUDENTS don't have to wrack their brains when they gripe about Harvard. They complain--often nonchalantly--about parietal rules, course requirements, restrictions on off-campus living, the inaccessability of many professors, the long march from Radcliffe and the Houses to the Yard, and a thousand other things...

Author: By John A. Herfort, | Title: A moderate is cautious about University withdrawal: "Students have little conception of what might happen..." | 11/11/1967 | See Source »

...Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee. What has made Kozol something of a celebrity is the success of his Death at an Early Age (Houghton Mifflin), a polemic against the treatment of Negro pupils in Boston's ghetto schools. Since publication last month, it has sold a thousand copies a day and, thanks to serialization in the Boston Globe, became an issue in the city's hot mayoralty campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Instant Expert | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...sent an inspector to investigate. He took one look and brushed the complaint aside. But more determined opposition was building up elsewhere. In Norwood, Ohio, Mrs. Stephen Wetzel, a mother of three, read about the doll in the newspapers, formed a committee that has since mailed off over a thousand letters of protest to Government officials, churches, clubs and department stores, branding the $19.95 doll an "obscene toy." Southern California is currently being blanketed by other protesters who believe that Little Brother will "complicate existing problems of sex and perversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Little Brother | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...Type A" Type. What had he done wrong? "I came to realize," said Dr. Page, "that I had not been living moderately. I worked hard. I was continually dissatisfied, and I always tried to drive myself harder. Although I've told a thousand audiences not to use stimulants, I was up to ten cups of coffee a day, trying to squeeze the last bit of efficiency out of myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cardiology: The Doctor's Heart Attack | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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