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Last week Emmy-winning Bishop Sheen announced that he would leave TV "temporarily" in order to devote more time to his "first duty, which is to be a beggar with a tin cup in my hand for the poor of the world." Added Sheen: "From a worldly point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Beggar with a Tin Cup | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Sputnik should be an incentive for the United States to devote more attention to education, said President Pusey, at a dinner in New York Thursday night.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Terms Sputnik Incentive to Education | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

Under the circumstances it was not difficult for the regime to effect the separation of families. Chronic economic hardship made it necessary for both father and mother to work long hours six days a week, leaving them little time to devote to their offspring. Yet even this was too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marxist Schools Analyzed | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

A new professorship has been set up in the Department of Economics. The chair will be used by a Harvard economist to devote his full time to research and teaching in international trade.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $400,000 Gift Creates New Economics Chair For Study of Trade | 10/19/1957 | See Source »

Scherzo to Finale. His life was without outward struggle. A doctor's son, Sibelius had been back home after his studies in Germany for only six years when the Finnish government gave him a 2,000-marks-a-year pension (about $400) so that he could devote all his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Woodsman | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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