Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifth-floor Cellar. There is little that is new about the use of air rights for construction; the idea got its first boost in the early 1900s, when railroads realized that there was gold in the sky above their facilities. In Manhattan, the New York Central began leasing air rights over its tracks running north from Grand Central Station. Today, many of Park Avenue's most spectacular glass-and-steel office buildings occupy railroad airspace; also over the tracks is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which, without a basement, keeps its wine cellar on the fifth floor. The 59-story...
Down the years since W. C. Handy midwifed the blues, his city of Memphis has been a passable paradigm of racial harmony and a pathfinder of Negro progress. Memphis schools are integrated. Its black citizens have voted since the early 1900s. Its white and black lawyers have been in the fore front of civil rights campaigns. So amicable has its climate been that Memphis police have never faced a serious charge of brutality. Yet last week Memphis simmered on the rim of racial rampage-a premonition in microcosm of next summer's national threat...
...until the present century did it become clear that safe blood transfusions depended on matching at least the A, B and O groups of red cells. The Rh factor came still later. In the early 1900s, U.S. Physiologist Charles Claude Guthrie and French Biologist-Surgeon Alexis Carrel appeared for a while to have broken down the barriers against transplants. They devised most of the basic surgical techniques, notably how to stitch slippery little blood vessels together so that the joints would neither leak nor close down with clots...
...Cover) Shed no nostalgic tears for New port. The great "Gilded Age" of the early 1900s - when O.H.P. Belmont's carriage horses used to sleep on pure white linen sheets, and William Fahnestock festooned the trees on his estate with 14-carat gold artificial fruits-has passed. But Rhode Island's "Queen of Resorts" still has its cachet and its names: the Auchinclosses, the Dukes, the Donahues, the Drexels, Lorillards, Woolworths and Hartfords...
...eccentric Russian scientist, Elie Metchnikoff, is basically responsible. Puzzled by the longevity of villagers in the backwoods of Bulgaria, he bent over his test tubes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the early 1900s and concluded that so many Bulgarians lived to be more than 100 because they ate lots of fermented milk. Their yogurt contained Bacillus bulgaricus, which, Metchnikoff decided, chased out the "wild, putrefying bacilli in our large intestine." He consumed untold gallons himself, discoursed profusely about what he believed to be its beneficial effects, and died at the age of 71, leaving behind a mere handful...