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...taken with a severe case of neuritis. Her Roman Catholic friend will light a candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after a while, her pastor . . . comes to visit. The conversation is light and encouraging. Before he leaves, he offers a vague prayer for her healing. If she were to stand up at that moment and cry out, 'I'm healed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Presence & Power | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Since then, though many have challenged, no one has managed to come close to beating the cat-quick little man who can hit the heavy cloth-covered ball with devastating power as well as delicate finesse. Pierre wants to quit while he is ahead: "It is a matter of prestige, you understand. It is for the record. It is for 26 years." Will he ever play competitively again? Pierre smiles. "I will perhaps play an exhibition with the new champion . . . Maybe two or three years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Champion Steps Down | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Silvered Homes. All surface structures, of course, would have to be protected from the terrible heat and cold of the lunar day & night. They should be covered with some reflecting metal. Exterior domes might be of steel, plated with silver, or better yet, of glass cloth, sealed with plastic inside and sprayed with silver outside. Even if small, they would have to be anchored strongly, and the expansion caused by heat and cold would probably rock their anchor bolts loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Home on the Moon | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...SHORT NOVELS (188 pp.)-Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Etnier, Clyde Miller, Shelby Foote-Ballantine (cloth $2.75, paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worth the Money | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...that he is the Vice President, is he any less the cheap political huckster who insulted the intelligence of his countrymen a year ago last fall? Some of us are not forgetting that this is the same "Trickie Dickie" of the fighting Irish wife, the cloth coat and Checkers. Remembering that irresponsible tearjerker he gave on television, could we ever have faith in anything he tells us? Long live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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