Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame for the failure of his own party to carry out its pledges to labor . . . Let us give him the benefit of the doubt." This time nobody leaped to bannerlines, but Dan Tobin's second and loudest toot seemed to put him definitely, if unenthusiastically, aboard the Truman train...
David discussed such points as how can schools train successful administrators; train successful enterprisers; teach human relations; and relate business teaching to the existing social and economic climate? As an indication that Harvard is still not sure of the answers, the school only this spring tightened the second year program by requiring more coordinating or "institutional" courses...
...selfish citizens? "The independen school, like the public high schools in prosperous suburbs, sometimes deals with students whose chief spiritual staff is a silver spoon and whose main intellectual reliance is a successful ancestor . . . Whether the independent school deals with able, mediocre, or limited students, it undertakes to train all in high standards of academic work and performance . . . One great challenge . . . remains: that of finding a means of imparting to all . . . graduates a lasting motivation...
Died. Robert Walker, 32, boyish cinemactor (Strangers on a Train; See Here, Private Hargrove), at the peak of a successful screen comeback after an emotional crackup and widely publicized alcoholic escapades; of respiratory failure, after a doctor had given him a dose of sodium amytal to quiet an emotional upset; in Hollywood. Born in Salt Lake City (where his father edited the Deseret News), Walker went off to theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan...
Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky melodrama about a psychopath (the late Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...