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Frankly ... In Jamaica, N.Y., Judge Joseph M. Conroy listened patiently while Donald and Mary McClay each recited reasons why the other was unfit to have custody of their two-year-old daughter, then gave his decision: "Neither of you will get custody. In my opinion you both stink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...jury of his constitutional peers had acquitted Dr. Hermann N. Sander of murder, but a jury of his professional peers last week decided that he was unfit to practice medicine. Meeting in the New Hampshire State House at Concord, the State Board of Registration in Medicine "indefinitely" suspended Dr. Sander from medical practice in the state by revoking his license, with the proviso that after two months he might apply for reinstatement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: Suspended | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Sixty percent of U.S. farmers are unfit for their jobs because they hate their animals and hate the soil, Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield said in Kansas City. "A farmer to succeed needs to be part businessman, part specialist and part scientist." In Rome, Renzo Rossellini pooh-poohed reports printed by a Communist magazine that his brother, Director Roberto Rossellini, would renounce all his U.S. earnings from the picture Stromboli "for reasons of artistic dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Specialist's Eye | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...Crimson speakers took the stand that a Communist by definition has closed his mind to all but one economic and political philosophy. A man who does not have an open mind, they argued, is unfit to teach. The judges gave the local team the edge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Retain Ivy League Lead | 2/18/1950 | See Source »

...since then a hodgepodge of other schools had mushroomed about the original system. For the most part, the children of laborers and farmers rarely got as far as the lycees. Those who did, some Frenchmen began to think, received such an overintellectualized brand of instruction that they emerged unfit for the day-today lives that most of them would lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Upheaval in Slow Motion | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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