Word: professor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...year business, "is wined and dined in homes that some social climbers would give no less than their right arm to even get in the kitchen of." Yet he still tends bar, never takes a drink. "You represent a whole period of American history," a college professor recently told him. "Jeez," mused Madden, "maybe they'll stuff me and put me in a museum...
...late Dr. Leta Stetter Hollingworth, a plump, motherly professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College, all her life deplored mankind's inhumanity to geniuses. Eighteen years ago, as an experiment, she picked 50 of the brightest children (I. Q. 130 to 200)* in New York City, started two special classes for them at Public School 165, near Columbia. Like Stanford University's Professor Lewis M. Terman (TIME, Oct. 14), who for 18 years has followed the careers of 1,300 gifted Californians, Dr. Hollingworth watched her "geniuses" as they grew...
...Rochester, N. Y. last week, while city health officers struggled with a polluted water system, School Superintendent James M. Spinning announced an answer to the problem of polluted textbooks. Goaded by Rugg-beaters (critics of widely used texts by Columbia Professor Harold Rugg-TIME, Sept. 9), Superintendent Spinning had polled the city's 17,000 high-school students, found that 99.22% approved the U. S. form of government. Less than 1% had read any schoolbooks which, they thought, "break down the loyalty of pupils to the United States." Sixteen of them said Professor Rugg's did so. Others...
...Manhattan tabloid Daily News, got interested in sex determination. He hired a couple of scientists, set them to work in an old laboratory douching rats and rabbits. For two years the News has issued bulletins on the sex of its baby rats. Alleged rate of success: 75%. Last month, Professor Elmer Roberts of the University of Illinois, working independently of the News, announced that he had predetermined the sex of 1,800 rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits, the system failed to work. Another independent...
Hallie Flanagan, fiftyish, is the widow of Philip H. Davis, Vassar Greek professor. She was born in Redfield, S. Dak., went to Grinnell College. Iowa, and Radcliffe, assisted the late George Pierce Baker at his Harvard dramatic workshop. In 1926 she was the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, on which she studied the theatre in twelve European countries and wrote Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theater. Her admiration for the early Soviet theatre of Meyerhold and others stood her in bad stead when she faced the brand of dramatic criticism offered by Representative Starnes and Senator Reynolds...