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Bending Twig. John Foster grew up under the hand of old-fashioned authority. He got caned and had his ears cuffed for throwing spitballs in school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Peacemaker | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Even in such a small space it is possible to set up several different testing arrangements. Bridgman has conducted tests on tension, compression, bending, punching and hardness. The interior of the laboratory is connected to the outside world by seven electrically insulated leads. The leads are connected to instruments inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicist Obtains Immense Pressures in Minute Press | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

Another, William Considine, 32, had been given six months to live. He had a roaring in the head which made it impossible for him to work. He had the operation nine months ago, responded so well that he got a job as a night orderly at Peter Bent Brigham. Considine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Without Adrenals | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

When the time came, Barere stepped briskly to the piano. In the clanging chords of the opening, he was in brilliant form. A few minutes later, he seemed to be bending close to the piano, listening. Then his left hand fell from the piano, his head almost touched the keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death in Carnegie Hall | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

At the center of The Loved and Envied shines Ruby Maclean, a 53-year-old beauty of angelic character, much too good for the decadent and useless idlers who surround her. Sympathetically and quietly, she administers the last rites to a dying generation. One friend, a rich old Italian duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Lady | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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