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...hearing of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight had not lasted long before a picture emerged from memory and began to dominate the scene. It was a picture of a tall, handsome young man in the isolation booth, his face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...body; as their marriage nears its third or fourth anniversary, it remains unconsummated. "There were times," muses Fonda's personal pressagent (Myron McCormick), "when the great man showed less judgment than any man in the history of the theater, with the possible exception of John Wilkes Booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Who Understood Women | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Booties for All. Surgeons rated hospital infection as the most pressing problem aired at Atlantic City: 2,000 of them jammed a morning-long session to discuss it. and among the scientific exhibits the biggest crowds were around a booth where the Huggins Hospital of Wolfeboro, N.H. demonstrated its exacting anti-infection routines. Here Administrator Stanley Read and Boston University's Surgeon Ralph Adams (who operates at Huggins) spelled out the steps on the road to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Danger in the Hospital | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...observation booth equipped with one-way glass allows researchers to observe classes for purposes of evaluating the case method. Written tests before and after the experiment compare the progress of students in the "Socratic" classes with those in the control group being taught by traditional recitation methods...

Author: By George W.K. Snyder, | Title: School of Education Cooperates With Newton, Lexington, Concord To Improve Teaching Techniques | 10/3/1959 | See Source »

...gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your mind there's a conflict," but everything is resolved when 1) Lilli has a therapeutic narcosis behind the padded doors of a neuological clinic, 2) the playwright makes love to her in an all-glass phone booth, and 3) her husband adds a lethal shot of arsenic to his vermouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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