Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, the unhappy parents of four-year-old Carolyn Joan Purcell found the "miracle" they were looking for. The little Georgia girl, threatened a fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 15) with the terrible alternatives of certain death or blindness by surgery, had been rushed to the famed Mayo Clinic by Atlanta Shriners. The Mayo doctors had pushed waiting patients aside to consider Carolyn Joan's case, and, after a painstaking ten-hour examination, had pronounced their verdict: Carolyn Joan was free of cancer, needed no operation...
...week's end, a group of Atlanta Masons arranged for Carolyn Joan to be flown to the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for further examination...
...Carolyn Joan's eyesight got steadily worse. Last week the Purcells brought the little girl to Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, to seek hope from a team of four specialists. After sending Carolyn Joan to play in the hospital corridor, the specialists confirmed the original diagnosis. The little girl had retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eyes. The doctors urged the parents to let them remove both eyes immediately...
...Atlanta, one of his first moves was to have the old building cleaned of half a century's grime and soot. Then he repainted the inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...
Look & Listen. Settlemayer borrowed merchandising ideas from retail stores ("Sure we are selling; we're selling reading"). When he learned that supermarkets find it hard to sell anything stacked below knee-level, he rearranged the Atlanta library shelves accordingly. He insists that new books be displayed in the publisher's fresh jackets, is replacing worn-out classics with bright new editions. "We even put magazines in the racks in their own covers. We don't want them in the old 'library' bindings...