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...fiercest) progressive schools. Its motto might have been: "Education without representation is tyranny." The children frolicked about in the nude, attended classes voluntarily, once voted to abolish bedtime. According to one story, the local rector knocked on the school door one day, and when he was greeted by a stark-naked nine-year-old girl, spluttered, "Good God!" Retorted the child, as she slammed the door: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright-Eyed Rationalism | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Fundamentalist. In Los Angeles, Forest Rollins strolled out on the street stark naked to buy cigarettes, indignantly told the cops who pinched him: "This is the way God made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...corrupt SS sergeant having his last fling in a sordid military brothel, an attractive girl turned to prostitution, a Prussian general who uses the noose to maintain discipline to the last. These characters, against a background of bombed out and burning buildings, give a most effective impression of stark, demoralizing realism. Happy takes it all in with the disillusioned expression of a man who recognizes evil, but can see no answer...

Author: By William A. M. burden, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/11/1952 | See Source »

Married. Lewis S. (for Samuel) Rosenstiel, 60, Cincinnati-born liquor baron, founder and president of Schenley, who once embarked on an unsuccessful campaign to teach 5,000 parrots to say "Drink Old Quaker" and install them in bars; and Louise Johnson Stark, 53, his first cousin, a surgeon's widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

More funds from the Combined Charities Drive went to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and the American Cancer Society than any other charity, David L. Stark '54, of the Student Council, announced last night Undergraduate donors chose to give the two groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cancer Gets Bulk of Charities Drive Funds | 12/21/1951 | See Source »

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