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Cheers to Hughes for declaring himself a skeptic who saw only Goyaesque fantasies and nothing supernatural or divine when he was near death. Inundated as we are by the current wave of religiosity, it is refreshing to hear from an honest and rational man. JEAN AND JACK BROOKHART Huntington Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Congress convened in March 1925, the Republicans in the Senate refused to give four of their colleagues any new committee assignments and busted them to the bottom of the seniority list on their previously assigned committees. The four were Wisconsin's Bob La Follette, Iowa's Smith Brookhart, North Dakota's Lynn Frazier and Edwin Ladd. All had worked for La Foilette's election as President on the Progressive ticket, opposing Calvin Coolidge. The best guess is that Maverick Morse will be similarly corralled in 1953, i.e., will be bumped to the bottom of the Armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corralling a Maverick | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Died. Smith Wildman Brookhart, 75, chunky, teetotaling, tobacco-shunning, onetime Republican Senator from Iowa, Farm Bloc regular, Soldier Bonus plugger, expert rifleman and early advocate of recognizing Russia; in Prescott, Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Libido, the technical name for sexual desire, is not triggered by the glands, but by the brain. So Neurologists John Mills Brookhart and Frederick Lemuel Dey of Northwestern University told the American Physiological Society in Chicago last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain on Sex | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...their studies in sex, Drs. Brookhart & Dey went to the guinea pig. They short-circuited the hypothalamus in nine animals, produced indifference to females in seven. (The other two, who managed to sire four litters, were not as severely injured as their companions.) The sex glands of all the animals remained in healthy condition. Loss of interest in sex, concluded the scientists, was due to a change in the guinea pigs' "mental outlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain on Sex | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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