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...young ladies of America stole the stage that summer. Minneapolis school officials split over the issue of starting a course for beauticians. Superintendent W. F. Webster of the Vocational High School was quoted by TIME: "The American women want bobbed hair . . . The new style . . . has created a new demand for a particular kind of service. This demand is as real as is the demand for dressmakers or milliners." Board of Education President A. P. Ortquist retorted: "It is criminal to spend the taxpayers' money to teach girls to bob hair and clean fingernails." (TIME noted on March...
...authors of the plan are the Ford Foundation's Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, former president of the State University of New York, and Rutgers President Lewis Webster Jones, until last month head of the University of Arkansas. Their program will substitute a four-year general college course for the ragbag collection of teachers' college curricula now in use. Students who plan to teach will learn their pedagogy after graduation, in one year of on-the-job study, at selected teachers' training centers. Only after their year of paid internship-working with pupils under the direction of "master...
...today, the 152-year-old school which produced "educated pagan Indians" and Daniel Webster in its youth, is both a fake and a phenomenon among its contemporaries...
Though a relentless foe of all commercials ("I've never knowingly bought anything I heard advertised on the air"), Webster is gentler in his handling of the programs themselves, and sometimes worries for fear one of his satires may make a performer unhappy. Last week he was cheered to get a letter from The Lonesome Gal (TIME, June 26, 1950), assuring him that she was delighted with a recent cartoon that showed an adolescent snarling "Mush!" at her honeyed comments...
...scholarly 66-year-old six-footer who mistakenly believes he looks like his own Caspar Milquetoast, Webster makes up for his lack of a TV set by having half a dozen radios in his Stamford, Conn, house. He is at his drawing board an average of six hours a day ("if you count the time I spend dreading the whole idea"), and usually has the radio on while he works. His favorite programs: Dragnet ("because it's played with more restraint than most whodunits") and Mary Margaret McBride ("because she's usually interviewing someone I know...