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Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Woman of Rome | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

The Few & the Many. From the start, it opposed those who thought that educators should be content to cram the three Rs down the throats of the many and devote their best energies to the college-bound few. While such subjects as Latin and Greek began to retreat, the N.E.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teachers' Champion | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

The real danger in following the primary recommendation is that such an action would tend to make a dead end of the Civil Service. To deny highly trained and experienced career men the opportunity to make and defend policy decisions would be foolish. No man will devote his time and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civil Service | 3/5/1957 | See Source »

Why should U.S. buyers travel to Paris for their designs? Not all of them do. But the plain fact is that Paris has a reservoir of skilled needleworkers and a tradition of craftsmanship that no other nation can match-a tradition established largely by the simple fact that no other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

At eighty-one, the kindly doctor, as energetic as ever, still cannot find time enough to devote to his music, philosophy, and theology; he must almost constantly tend his patients, working only for brief periods at his other manifold interests. With the close of the day at Lambarene, the film...

Author: By Will Snickson, | Title: Albert Schweitzer | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

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