Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota, whose ruler, the Nizam, is said to be the richest man in the world. Last week, under pressure to become part of India, Hyderabad appealed to the U .N. Security Council for help in preserving its independence. In Hyderabad, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar examined Hyderabad's cold war with India, which may touch off a new wave of Hindu-Moslem warfare. Lubar cabled...
...they told conflicting stories about whether Teropterin had been used to treat him. They quoted the priest who blessed the Babe ("He died a beautiful death"). They quoted or put quotes into the mouths of moppets who hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone houses and cold-water flats," sniffled the Daily Mirror, "huddled in the dark outside . . . fighting off tears when the news came"). For days, photographers had been carefully posing the children, chin-in-hand and with bat-&-ball props, to illustrate "The Vigil...
...read, however, as a social document, The Pleasures of the Jazz Age has the same kind of interest as a report on mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced...
...melodrama is the complex story of the psychiatrist himself, his professional work and private fevers. He is neither miracle man nor mad scientist, as Hollywood so often presents men of his trade. The audience can respect his talents while fearing for his fallibility. There is ham in him, and cold conceit, as he changes face and voice from one patient to the next. He mistreats his wife and dallies with a blonde (Christine Norden), unhappily wondering why he can't be as useful to himself as he is to some of his patients. In short, the psychiatrist...
...publishers read Dublin-born Anne Crone's first novel and turned it down cold. Then an idea came to Miss Crone, 32, an Oxford graduate, and a teacher of languages in an Irish girls' school. She would send her manuscript to an old patron of Irish letters, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. The Irish storyteller and playwright liked it so much that he volunteered to write an introduction, in which he calls Bridie Steen "one of the great novels of our time, not quite to be forgotten in a hundred years." With his handsome assist...