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...citizens' movement for improved schools has become a "full-time avocation" for over a million Americans, Henry Toy, president of the National Citizens Council for Better Schools, said last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Lecture At Friday Sessions Of '58 Seminar | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

...conference will continue tomorrow morning at 9:15 a.m. with speeches by Henry Toy, President of the National Citizens Council for Better Schools, and John B. Fisher of Joyce and Fisher Associates, on "The Citizen Looks at His Schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Plan Meetings On Security, Education | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...self-inflated news commentator, free love, the power of mind over matter, and the flying saucer furore. The story centers around Kreton, a visitor from outer space who lives in the "suburbs of time," can read all the thoughts of men and animals, and considers our earth a mere toy to be played with...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Shakespeare, Vidal Comedies Highlight Drama Week | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...riddle posed by the child of a friend: "What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?" (Answer: a one-eyed, one-horned, flying people eater.) Wooley composed the song in an hour, hyped the People Eater's voice in currently approved fashion; he achieved the toy saxophone sound of the People Eater's horn by recording a regular saxophone at reduced speed and playing it back at high speed. The record took off immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple, Man, Purple | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...Staring in Disbelief." Such sponsor neglect incenses Susskind, a toy bulldog of a man who hardly minds biting the hand that hesitates to feed him. At every chance, he sneers at the "ocean of mediocrity" brought on by "panic buying" of quiz games and westerns. He insists that advertisers are deluded, says that viewers "are staring in stark disbelief and disinterest, and I hazard the guess that their pocketbooks are zipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bring 'Em Back Alive | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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