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Even under the two-week system, however, the delay in beginning a course is unnecessary, since only a few lectures are involved. And instructors who pull their punches are not giving a representative lecture on which students can base their choice...
Last winter they decided to try for full-time work at Manhattan's Village Vanguard, where other folk singers (Richard Dyer-Bennett, Burl Ives and Josh White) got their start. After a one-night trial, they got a two-week contract at $50 a head, stayed for six months. Singing loud & clear or sweet & low, they found they could get noisy nightclubbers to quiet down for everything from Southern work songs and African chants to Indonesian lullabies and mountain hymns...
...International News Service men met for a last drink before heading back to Korea to cover the war. For 23-year-old Frank Emery, who had been wounded while on a daring patrol behind Red lines with Correspondent Randolph Churchill (TIME, Sept. 4), it was the end of a two-week convalescence. Until he was hit by a mortar burst, hardworking, chance-taking Frank Emery had been up front almost continuously. So had Photographer Charles Rosecrans. A dark, wiry little man who usually sported a billygoat beard, 30-year-old Charlie Rosecrans-had covered World War II in the Pacific...
...last week granted a 5?-an-hour increase in line with the cost-of-living clause in its contract. Packard's two-week strike ended this week with a 4?-an-hour raise, $125-a-month pensions, and a cost-of-living clause and annual technological raise similar...
...first the case seemed a mere formality. Luther Eustis, a sternly God-fearing farmer of middle age, had confessed the murder of Beulah Ross, the sexy teenager who ran away with him for an illicit two-week idyll. But when Parker Nowell took Farmer Eustis' case, that changed matters a bit. Lawyer Nowell was a sour misogynist but he was also a brilliant courtroom tactician who "never took a case unless it was hopeless, and it was a long way from hopeless" when...