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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developing the ability to write good exposition is a problem at all levels of the school, a difficulty which seems to be prevalent through out the country. Even the Advanced Placement English class finds trouble fitting in enough time to work on writing. The school administration has moved this year, however, to place more stress on English composition work. English teachers have been limited to four classes a day, in contrast with the normal load of five for other teachers. The extra time, according to the principal, will enable pupils and teachers "to work more industriously in developing quality...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Suburbia's Scarsdale High School Offers Top Academic Challenge | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...June 2 issue, TIME printed a letter from Milwaukee over the signature Willis Scholl, attacking Vice President Nixon. I regretfully report that this letter was a fraud. Willis Scholl, executive vice president of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., who lives at the address given on the letter, did not write it and most certainly does not agree with the views it expressed. Since the person who signed Mr. Scholl's name to this letter is guilty of an offense against the Federal Code, the whole matter has been turned over to federal authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Colonel Flint had intended to return to Canada shortly and write a book about his two years of truce-keeping in Palestine. He had already chosen the title: Blessed Are the Peacemakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Death on Mount Scopus | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...writer and director, wrote Welles, the picture's flaws are not all his: the film appeared after "wholesale re-editing by the executive producer, a process of rehashing in which I was forbidden to participate. Confusion was further confounded by several added scenes which I did not write and was not invited to direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...critic and the public, the answers to "What is art?" are matters of widely different opinions. At U.S. customs, where in theory original works of art should pass duty free, the answers are red-tape snarls of contradiction and confusion. Last week two members of Congress set out to write some new official definitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Isn't Art? | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

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