Word: basile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hall of fame to be unveiled at Warm Springs, Ga. Leading the list of scientists is Jacob von Heine, first to describe the disease clearly in a book published in Stuttgart in 1840; windup man is inevitably Jonas E. Salk. The laymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foundation President Basil O'Connor...
...BASIL STUART...
...Alex Goulandris, second cousin to Basil Goulandris whose $297,000 for Gauguin's Still Life with Apples set a new high (TIME, June 24), stepped into the ranks of top Greek buyers by purchasing a Matisse for $25,000, Bonnard's Still Life with Cat (appraised at $50,000) for $70,000, and Gauguin's Tahitian scene, Man Taporo...
Just as angry was BOAC's Managing Director Basil Smallpeice, who let Bristol have it on the chin. When Bristol's short-range Britannia 102s finally went into service from London to Johannesburg last February, said Smallpeice, they were 19 months late, which held down BOAC's net profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot...
...Married. Basil O'Connor, 65, president (since its founding in 1938) of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, onetime law partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Hazel Royall, 43, chief of functional physical therapy at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, of which O'Connor is also president; both for the second time; in Manhattan...