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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Creamed Chicken. In many ways Kenneth Oberholtzer is a schoolman's schoolman. The son of a Western school superintendent, he was a mild-mannered boy, so shy and studious that his hearty father eventually gave him the same nickname that early Denver gave Sligoman Gold-rick, "the Professor." School was his life. In the fifth grade, he fell for his first girl, a curly-headed classmate named Florence; 14 years later he married her. At the University of Illinois he decided to make education his career, later went on for a Ph.D. at Columbia University's Teachers College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pattern of Necessity | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Sometimes the coalition met itself coming & going as it argued that there was no use doing "something" for Korea in light of the Administration's "do nothing" policy on China. In vain, Minnesota's studious ex-missionary Dr. Walter Judd, an Old China Hand and able Republican critic of State's Asian policies, tried to get things right side up. Cried he: "If, on top of the blow the Administration has just dealt to the last hope of the Chinese, we here today walk out on the Koreans, what do you think it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Inscrutable Occidentals | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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