Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behavior of the two students--they were students, not townies--is, we hope, not typical. Harvard has not yet begun to form teen-age gangs after the manner of New York, but the bombing, if it was part of an organized club initiation or if it was just the brain-child of two idiots, has all the attributes of a teen-age mentality...
Then he met with Mayor Poulson's brain trust. Los Angeles, he learned to his dismay, was not about to give away Chavez Ravine on O'Malley's terms. "The thing got more and more confusing," he admits. "I finally asked, 'Well, who's the big guy out here? Who do I have to deal with...
...brain-picking, Gunther was so likable and professionally esteemed that he was elected first president of Vienna's Anglo-American Press Association in 1931. With his small, assertive first wife Frances, Gunther was as famed even then for doughty partying as for hard work. In his spare time, fast-working Gunther wrote dozens of political pieces for magazines ranging from Foreign Affairs to Woman's Home Companion...
John and Frances Gunther's first brush with death came in 1929, when their only daughter Judy died at four months of a glandular ailment. In April 1946 they learned that their only son, then 16, had a brain tumor. For 15 months Johnny, a lively, charming youngster, clung heroically to life and sanity. Though Frances (who now lives in Jerusalem) had divorced Gunther in 1944, they fought an agonizing side-by-side battle for Johnny's life. In desperation they consulted more than 30 doctors, tried such extreme treatments as intravenous mustard-gas injections, which had never...
Keats asks and answers other searching questions: "Do we want the school to be a doctor's office, workshop, church, psychiatrist's couch, family counseling service, athletic association and brain-trainery all rolled into one? Are there no other public agencies in our town that might not minister to some of those needs? Do not ask whether a home economics course is necessary, but rather ask this: Is ours the kind of society where the girls best learn from their mothers? Must we ask the school to offer courses in driver training, or could the same...