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...cartoon in the weekly Tribune showed a British kid asking a G.I.: "Any gum, chum, on a strictly longterm, interest-free, dollar-loan basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: $3 Billion Gum, Chum? | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...Town King. Young (42) Mr. Ruskin, no violet for modesty, attributes his success to his sharp, morning-glory wits. He likes to remember that he graduated from eighth grade at the age of ten years and nine months, from high school at 14 ("I would have been a quiz kid"). He became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Quiz Kid | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...Southwest, famed for its tough badmen, a tough good man died last week. Elfego Baca was little known outside New Mexico, yet he left a saga rivaling Billy the Kid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: Good Man of the Badlands | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Classroom Cinema | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), dark and hefty (192 Ib.) Gene learned organization and promotion at Senn High School, running clubs and parties. A hip operation kept him from athletics and made him a 4-F. Hep to the kid mind as well as to business, he is still popular at Senn, where he graduated in 1944. He visits the school at least once a week, checks new fads, styles. Having done all right without a college education, he now has no intention of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen-Age Gallup | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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