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...girls have already "graduated" from St. Michael's. Many were onetime members of the Hitler Youth, some were professed atheists and agnostics, one was the nephew of Nazi Minister of Economics Walther Funk. Results have been more encouraging than even Founder Nye hoped for. Nearly all the students bombard the lecturers with questions. Of a recent class made up exclusively of boys from the Adolf-Hitler-Schule at Sonthofen, 27 said that they were deeply impressed; two were unimpressed; the 30th decided to become a priest...
Cosmic Contribution. On the research front, an ingenious investigator has opened up a new line of inquiry. Atomic radiation is known to promote cancer growth. Could cosmic rays, the infinitesimal energy particles that continually bombard the earth from outer space, also promote it? Dr. Frank H. J. Figge, of the University of Maryland Medical School, published in Science some data that seemed to show they...
Requests from scores of TIME readers who want to bombard their friends with card-sized replicas of themselves on TIME'S cover bringing holiday greetings, announcing new offspring, from school and college annuals, etc., make a real problem for us. We are highly gratified by such requests, but, the trademark laws of the U.S. being what they are, we have to refuse permission for reproductions of TIME'S format and take action against unauthorized uses of it. During last fall's election campaign, for example, an enterprising candidate for New York State assemblyman from The Bronx headlined...
...Brailowsky is in the top ten of pianists but ranks below masters like Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz both in prestige and at the box office. But in South America he outdraws them all, and Latin women bombard him with flowers and kisses. Tickets for a Brailowsky concert bring black-market prices. Says Brailowsky: "There is the line like you saw here for nylon stockings...
Actor Richardson's Falstaff was very likely the best that this generation had seen. It caught the lustiness as well as the wit. Falstaff was indeed "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts" in the chambers of whose brain, as Hazlitt quoted, "it snows of meat and drink." Whether playing dead or playing the hero, making light of honor or rhapsodizing about sack, impersonating the King or embracing blowzy Doll Tearsheet (amusingly played by Joyce Redman), he rolled through the play, the greatest comic figure in English literature...