Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week the case of Teacher Russell was a highly embarrassing item on the Los Angeles board of education's agenda. Was it a case of censorship? Superintendent of Schools Ellis A. Jarvis pooh-poohed the suggestion, conveniently ruled that it was just a matter of obeying the law against selling books in a classroom. Should Teacher Russell then be disciplined? Some 35 teachers at U.C.L.A. and Santa Monica City College rose to her defense in an angry petition charging "a breach of academic freedom." Said Florence Russell: "If reminding students of their rightful literary heritage is an offense...
...each year in several rooms of the palace, while his queen and her ladies in waiting sewed silk and velvet costumes for the new figures. One of the most striking of the Neapolitan presepios, owned by Collector Marcello Hallecker of Naples, is shown on TIME'S cover this week. Typical of many a presepio of the period, the scene has been arranged on a replica mountainside 12 ft. across. The manger itself is all but obscured by the teeming, noisy crowd that moils about the inn, oblivious of the vertiginous angels or of the event they herald...
They had spent the evening among sharpies and shills and slick-talking swindlers dedicated to the ancient shopkeeper's art of conning the customer. But London's theater critics were delighted. When it opened in the West End last week, Wolf Mankowitz' brash, breezy new comedy, Make Me An Offer, rang up just the sort of sale the playwright was bargaining for. "When the British musical finally finds its feet," said the staid Financial Times, "we may well remember Make Me An Offer as a landmark...
...Perky Warren? To last week's off-Broadway audience he was only a nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
...Last week the Piaf endurance test that the papers had begun to call "The Defiance Tour" or "The Suicide Tour" was finally halted. The sad singer was taken to hospital for a rest cure-some 20 hours a day of drug-induced sleep. "Everything becomes a great white silence," explained France-Soir. L'Aurore printed a picture of the clinic, the name (Bellevue) showing clearly to attract the curious public, and an arrow pointing to Piaf's room...