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...secretary of the league, Menon gave soapbox speeches, got sympathetic left-wing intellectuals like Laski, Bertrand Russell and Stafford Cripps to preach the gospel of Indian independence. Menon lived in a dreary bed-sitter in Camden Town in London's working-class borough of St. Pancras, eked out a living by writing occasional legal briefs, often lacked enough money for a meal. He became involved in Labor Party politics, served as a member of the St. Pancras borough council, where he is still remembered as "the best library chairman we ever had." For his work, he became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Tea-Fed Tiger | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Throughout the week a small army of engineers, painters, technicians and nuclear physicists worked on the sleek, white-hulled ship lying in her slip at Camden, N.J. Early next month the N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah* the world's first atomic-powered merchant ship, will go to Yorktown, Va., for dockside tests, then head out into the Atlantic for sea trials. Said Dr. Marvin M. Mann, project manager of the ship's nuclear power plant: "For all practical purposes, the Savannah is completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: Ready to Go | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Albert L. Weiner certainly was not the best psychiatrist in New Jersey, but he was very likely the fastest. As many as 50 patients a day from the Camden-Philadelphia area crowded into his office-home in Erlton. A doctor of osteopathy, with psychiatric training in osteopathic clinics in Los Angeles and Tulsa, Weiner distributed his patients in four treatment rooms and hurried from one to another giving treatment. Last week a Camden jury found Weiner guilty on twelve counts of manslaughter: as a result of his treatment, twelve patients died, and many more became gravely ill. He faced prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Case of the Dirty Needle | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...Alexander Hilsberg, 61, Warsaw-born product of the St. Petersburg violin-prodigy assembly line (others: Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein) who served 20 years as concertmaster of the "ideal orchestra" of his youth, the Philadelphia, before taking over the New Orleans Symphony in 1952; of heart and kidney disease; in Camden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 18, 1961 | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...Virginia and North Carolina. At each stop Negroes used white rest rooms, sat at white lunch counters. There was a brief scuffle at Rock Hill, S.C.; two Negro riders were arrested and quickly released in Winnsboro, S.C. Then came another quiet stretch. No incidents took place in Sumter. S.C., Camden, S.C., Augusta, Ga. and Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Trouble in Alabama | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

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