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...idea: to take one of Dougherty's salivary glands (there are three on each side) and reroute it so that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed the parotid salivary duct almost back to the ear, cut it free from the inside of the mouth with a bit of mucous membrane attached, then led it to the eye's outer corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Drooling Eye | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...large in the U.S. This cultish tribe spends easy ($3.50 per spindly copy of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) and laughs easy-at soggy puns, campus wheezes, G.I. antics and leering badinage about the hot-and-cold war between the sexes. As a humorist, Max (Barefoot Boy with Cheek) Shulman is a kind of roadhouse Wodehouse, a breezy, rattlebrained funnyman whose books can and probably should be read with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...programs he ranged from the Khachaturian cello concerto to a Bach suite to Debussy pieces. He played with uncanny accuracy and ease, demonstrated his power by the zing of his attacks, especially in the way he clouted his instrument in loud pizzicato chords. At quieter moments, he laid his cheek against the neck of the cello as if it were a pillow. Shafran's tone was big and creamy, his cantilena as expressive as if words were being sung. Critics raved. Said the Berliner Zeitung: "This artist must be counted among the most outstanding masters of the instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Cello Virtuoso | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...finest thing about the movie remains in its mastery of the crafts of acting and skillful directing. Actors Huston and Bogart turn in classic performances always given with tongue in cheek and that sense of humor that only a great actor can get away with. The direction and photography give focus to their performance...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 11/12/1957 | See Source »

...Hudson were draped in fog, but inside the dining room of West Point's Thayer Hotel the President of the U.S. talked long and gaily between bites of roast beef. His wife, happy too, leaned over and planted a light kiss on Dwight Eisenhower's right cheek for no special reason at all. Ike, like thousands of other old grads this week, was making that American pilgrimage, a homecoming to his alma mater. The occasion: an informal reunion of the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homecoming | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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