Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes Toledano's sudden success all the more surprising is that he is unable to stir from his wheelchair. An accident at birth seriously injured his central nervous system. He has extreme difficulty speaking and only limited control of his arms and hands. But with brain and eyes unimpaired, Toledano got a good education from tutors, became a voracious reader. In his early years Toledano hoped to become a writer; later he dabbled in sketching. In 1952, when he was 42, he produced a cartoon lampooning Presidential Candidate Eisenhower that the Democrats blew up for a Madison Square...
...Heart action is generally revived in less than a minute. Blood is then transfused by vein. Restoration of breathing may take as long as 18 minutes. Only after this are the higher nervous centers revived, with the body functions that they control. If the process is too prolonged, some brain centers never recover...
...chief editorial writer of LIFE (1942-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In August 1939, Davenport met Lawyer Wendell Willkie at a FORTUNE round table, zealously set out to promote him as a presidential candidate, managed the Willkie strategy at the 1940 Republican Convention, headed the Willkie brain trust during the whirlwind 1940 campaign...
...early presidents, "Redbooks", and the Radcliffe News when it was a daily. In 1907 the Mandolin and Poetry Clubs were most popular, and the whole senior class could sit together on the steps of Agassiz. Also reported are the coed races that the girls won in '46 by "sheer brain power"--reported the Yearbook--the boys mistook the finish line. Correspondence of the Annex's second president. LeBaron Russell Briggs, shows the college's early difficulties...
...widely disparate personalities teamed up in Athens. One was resolute old Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the war hero who was elected Premier at the head of the coalition Greek Rally Party. The other: a brilliant and unpredictable political rival named Spyros Markezinis. A small man with a quick brain, Spyros Markezinis was as unpopular as his new boss was beloved. But Papagos made him Minister of Economic Planning, gave him complete control of the disheveled Greek economy. Soon many of the gossips in Athens cafes were asking: "Who's running the country anyway-the Old Man or Markezinis...