Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ejaculations of Hopper are more lively than his paintings. One thought is clear: the continuum of romanticist murmuring and sweet trills of past American art will "glow" through the age of Hopper and those who follow, amply aided by TIME...
...never done: 1) to stop all city buses from running, and 2) to evoke the sympathy of most of Alabama's thinking whites. The city commission, declaring a state of emergency, suspended all bus operations "until further notice" and urged parents of both races to keep their teen-age children off the streets at night. Some 75 police reservists were alerted for emergency duty; special squads were armed with shotguns and tear gas. Alabama Governor James E. Folsom, after a tour of the damaged areas, offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the bombers...
...ATOM Way to Survive Haunting many minds in the Atomic Age is the dark thought that an H-bomb or H-missile attack would be so devastating that survivors, if any, would be reduced to Stone Age primitiveness. Not necessarily, says Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, and sometimes called (he modestly disclaims the tag) "father of the H-bomb." Writing on "The Nature of Nuclear Warfare" in this month's Air Force, Teller argues that a nuclear attack on the U.S. need not be "cataclysmic" and casualties...
...bicycle rider and whale hunter (to take their pulses), welcomed a snowstorm to help demonstrate one of his favorite maxims: "Hard work never killed a healthy man." Unpuffingly shoveling snow piled behind his Beacon Street office, Dr. White advised all healthy folks to take exercise in keeping with their age and general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern: "We are already becoming a soft race dependent on gadgets which are not likely to protect...
Arturo Toscanini, one of the foremost orchestra conductors in the world, died yesterday at the age of 89. Death came at his home in Riverdale, the Bronx, at 8:40 a.m. He had been suffering from the after-effects of a stroke, which occurred on New Year...