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...years of living in hotel rooms, he wanted a home. He prefers California. Says he: "Anybody who doesn't live in California is a victim of circumstances." But because Valerie Hogan still prefers Fort Worth, that's where he bought his new Colonial-style house three months ago...
...self-centredness, spirit and matter, person and mechanism, progress and stagnation-and in this sense, God and the world or God and man. Who would deny that these are important categories? I am not unaware that . . . within this framework . . . [is] more profound thinking . . . than there was a decade ago...
Like many another copybook maxim, the old saw about an idle mind being the devil's workshop has validity in psychiatry as well as in everyday life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
Just a year ago, two doctors announced that they had isolated a virus which causes one type of common cold (TIME, Jan. 5). It was a good start, but there was a lot of slow work ahead. Drs. Norman H. Topping and Leon T. Atlas, at the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., had to keep testing their virus, called MR-I,* on human volunteers. They put the virus, kept alive in fertilized chicken eggs, into the noses of inmates of District...
Russia's Sergei Prokofiev had been told months ago by the party's Central Committee how to write music. But had he really listened...