Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edited in Boston, the unorthodox, politically independent Atlantic has grown from a genteel gazette for Brahmins into a national monthly of moment that boasts more readers in California than in any Eastern state. From Walt Whitman to Archibald MacLeish, from Thoreau to Thornton Wilder, it has diligently cultivated the best U.S. writers of every decade since its founding. In its broader role as an exponent of the American idea, it has molded its mandate to the times and, at its best, brought to trie vital issues of the day that "nervous force" without which, as Atlantic Editor Walter Hines Page...
...shareholder: Mrs. Marion D. Strachan of Groton, Mass.) has prospered, increased advertising revenue 100% and doubled circulation (to 241,520) under Weeks and his editorial staff of 8. And its 268-page, 100th anniversary edition, typographically redesigned and filled with original contributions by some of the world's best-known writers (for one example, see box), is proof that the Atlantic is still, in its editor's words, "a living tradition...
...follow him around the world, remains in a room specially decorated for it in Manhattan. His favorite repository is the yacht Creole, which for nearly six months of the year is the Niarchos' home afloat. In the below-decks salon he hangs some of his best, has a special place of honor where he rotates his favorite of the moment-currently Gauguin's Horsemen on the Beach...
...Jujin's eyelid surgery technique was devised by the hospital's director, Dr. Fumio Umezawa, 52, who got into plastic surgery after his own child was disfigured in an accident, needed extensive reconstruction. "The thing I like best," says Umezawa, "is to stand at the door and watch the faces of the patients as they leave. The happiness they feel enhances the work we have done for them. They look beautiful...
...nearly always much less than a first-rate physician could earn in private practice. Some schools settle for second-rate teachers. Others compromise by taking on professors halftime, leaving them half a work week to make a living in private practice. Since this leaves no time for research, the best schools insist on a hard core of full-time faculty members. Even so, these are outnumbered by part-time specialty teachers, often unpaid. There are now 331 full-time budgeted positions open in U.S. medical schools, with no qualified takers...