Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kitchen. Washington under Harding, Herter recalls, was "like a dirty kitchen, where cockroaches abound." Herter quit, moved to Boston as co-owner and salaryless co-editor of the old magazine of opinion, the Independent, once graced by Henry Ward Beecher. Active as a Republican, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict...
...indoor track season has been height rather than speed. At the Inquirer meet in Philadelphia, muscular Don Bragg, 23-year-old Army private, vaulted 15 ft. 9½ in. to break the 16-year-old world indoor record. At the New York Athletic Club meet in Madison Square Garden, Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, 17, deprived of a world indoor mark when his 7 ft. jump was not measured correctly a fortnight ago, did it all over again to make his mark official...
...England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Bradford Cannon, Judson G. Randolph and Joseph E. Murray of Boston report that "patients continue to appear with permanent tissue destruction that has resulted from relatively recent radiation treatment of acne, plantar wart, eczema [and] superfluous hair." Examining 165 such cases from their personal files and the records of Massachusetts General Hospital, the doctors starkly document the dangers of unnecessary exposure to irradiation. Items...
Millions of Americans pick up the telephone to get the weather or the correct time, shopping news, stock market quotations, recorded prayers, bird watchers' bulletins, and even (in Boston) advice to those contemplating suicide. Teen-agers could hardly live without the telephone -and many parents can hardly live with it. Twisted into every position-so long as it is uncomfortable-teen-agers keep the busy signals going with deathless conversation: "What ya doin? Yeah. I saw him today. Yeah. I think he likes me. Wait'll I change ears. Whaat? Hold on till I get a glass...
...deaf. He thought that he could devise a mechanical gadget like the human ear to transmit and receive voices by electrical impulse, had a crude instrument made according to his specifications by his assistant, Thomas Watson. Bell was fiddling with the instrument in the attic of a Boston rooming house one day when he spilled acid on his clothes. Cried Bell: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Watson, at the end of a receiver in another room, heard Bell's voice clearly over the phone-and came arunning...