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...worried? Frankly yes, said a Michigan-born volunteer, 28, while others nodded assent: "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried. You lie there on your bunk, knowing you've got cancer in your arm, and you just think. Boy, what you think about!" Why do so many volunteer so willingly? Several prisoners have given their reasons in letters to Warden Ralph Alvis. Said one: "I took a life, and the only way I can atone for that, even in a small measure, is through something like cancer research." Another: "I am just starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Volunteers | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Lebensraum. To a great extent that's what the new House will mean. Fewer strained feelings per square foot and an escape from the barbarism of bunk beds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Plus One m | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

...Lizzie's head in a whirl with his promise to bring the rain their crops need, and with his threat to awaken the love her heart fears and longs for. Price: $100. "Electrify the cold front!" he cries. "Neutralize the warm front! Barometricize the tropopause!" Says Lizzie: "Bunk!" But the rainmaker has an answer for that. "Lady, you're right! . . . But you gotta take my deal because once in your life you gotta take a chance." And her father goes along with that. "You gotta take a whole chance without bein' afraid of gettin' hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Some readers may feel that the CRIMSON is a meany for withholding this letter, which was dated October 31. On the other hand, it effectively demonstrates that prudence is virtue and science is bunk, and that two sophomores have keen interest in our several grid classics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR SYMMETRY | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

...sleep, sprawl in her bunk, and talk about her husband: how tender he was, how he spread flowers around their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Prima Donna | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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