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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"It's getting harder and harder to find a good taxidermist these days," says John Anglim, chief of exhibits at Washington's Smithsonian Institution. "Young people just don't go into this field any more." For the Smithsonian-which normally employs six taxidermists-and for other U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Do-lt-Yourself Taxidermy | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Now please don't think, "Oh, here's another angry Democrat!" I am not; I am an angry citizen and voter. Everyone knows that TIME likes the Republican Party-you say so yourself, and it is your privilege and prerogative to like whomever you please. But it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1960 | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

He had started painting when he was four on the day that his mother, a dogged but unprosperous artist, gave him some paint and old brushes and told him to "go away and amuse yourself." At eight, he was picked out of 5,000 contestants to illustrate a book of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Return of the Prodigy | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

Do-It-Yourself. A number of small U.S. makers, working in lofts, studios and stables, lovingly turn out instruments finer than anything Europe has to offer. They are split into two mildly hostile factions: those who stick to wooden frames and those who experiment with metal. William Dowd and Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Plectra Pluckers | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

In a run-down loft in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, an ex-child psychologist named Wallace Zuckermann turns out the U.S.'s only mass-produced harpsichord, an instrument that sells briskly for $750, but is derided by professionals. Last spring, Zuckermann went a step further: for a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Plectra Pluckers | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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