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English Teacher Ruth Ulferts of the senior high school in Anoka, Minn. (pop. 7,396) regarded the assignment as strictly routine. Write a theme on a book, she told her class; any book will do. Gangling Sophomore Richard Ingledue, 15, son of a truck driver, picked up his pencil, frowned a bit and began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Theme | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...oxygenation by "filming" the blood, i.e., letting it run thin over a flat surface. They wanted to avoid bubbling it because of the danger that some bubbles might be left in, and if these reached the brain, they could cause paralysis or death. Richard DeWall, a general practitioner from Anoka, Minn., went to work with Lillehei. Neophyte DeWall figured: Instead of dreading bubbles, why not put them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood into a plastic cylinder and deliberately bubbling, almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery's New Frontier | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...handful of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party outcasts, handed him impossible schedules, spent most of their time squabbling among themselves about how their candidate should spend his time. One day the Keef wasted nearly two hours being driven around northwest Minneapolis while his guides looked for the offices of the Anoka Herald, a suburban newspaper. The motorcade headed in one direction, got lost, stopped at a filling station to inquire about the route, doubled back, stopped to ask again, charged off in still another direction. Finally arriving at his destination, Kefauver spent five minutes shaking hands with the editor and half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The High & Low Roads | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Tatsuo Arima of Tokyo, Japan; Philip J. Andrews of Milton, Mass.; James E. Dale Jr. of Anoka, Minn.; Robert Gilmor Jr. of Woodborn, N. Y.; David C. Jordan of Charlottesville, Va.; Michael L. Murray of Westfield, N. J.; Thomas H. Rockel (Capt.) of Storrs, Conn.; Robert Wynne of Bethlehem, Pa.; Robert J. McLaughlin (Mgr.) of West Roxbury, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 257 Varsity, Freshman Players Honored in 10 Winter Sports | 4/15/1954 | See Source »

After three weeks, Dr. Krieser found that some of the severe mental cases at Anoka were definitely behaving better. By now, Dr. Krieser reports, six patients have improved markedly, twelve moderately, and three slightly, for a total of 21 out of 48 cases treated. There is no relationship between the effect of the drug on a patient's physical disease and on his mental illness; some show physical improvement, but not mental, while others show the reverse; a few get better both ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Lift | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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