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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes men teach at women's colleges? "A young instructor summed it up very neatly the other day when he said, 'I think women are wonderful.'"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Male & Females | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

It was not until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sentimentalist | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Hendl believes both that "Bach should be heard more," and that "Jazz and show music contain examples which . . . can only be called good music . . . and will find a permanent place in our musical culture." Hendl plans to serve his listeners a menu made up 65% of old masters, 35% of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One of the People | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Songwriter Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael was not sure he was quite up to the job. "I know my limitations . . . I'm not a student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indiana Melody | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Last week, summing up the work of two years, Dr. Toma (rhymes with coma) had remarkable success to report in surgery upon patients from Methodist-sponsored Pacific Home and Claremont Manor, in Los Angeles County. In more than 50 operations on men & women "up to 100 years" he had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operating on Oldsters | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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