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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A man who knows the Atlantic almost as well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

To celebrate her 20-year climb from a Newark church choir to the prestige-drenched Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, organ-toned Songstress Sarah Vaughan rushed out and bought a $60,000 house in suburban New Jersey. One feature: a set of entrance chimes (cost: $450...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Picking from faculty suggestions of shirker sophomores and juniors, Amherst Dean C. Scott Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Underachievers | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

The Herins yanked Barbara Jean out of Teacher Russell's class and consulted their pastor. He fired off a letter to Principal Larsh, who quickly agreed that the poems were "unsuitable" and that the book would be withdrawn. When Teacher Russell refused to do so, Alfred S. Roberts, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sin of Commission? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

In the new hit musical, Fiorello (TIME, Dec. 7), Actor Tom Bosley appears before Broadway audiences for the first time and gives them what they thought they had seen for the last time: the fire, drive and percussion of New York's Little Flower. "I was thunderstruck by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: New Little Flower | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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