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Jane Todd Crawford, 47, mother of five, was sure that she was pregnant again. But though her body swelled, she felt no quickening within her. Something was wrong. Surgeon Ephraim McDowell diagnosed Jane Crawford's trouble: no pregnancy, but a tumor. Only surgery might save her. McDowell had never heard of success in abdominal surgery of such severity, to remove a tumor of this size. The year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery & Psalms | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Lampoon editors do not agree upon the significance of the events at this point. One analysis was made last night by the vending expedition's angry leader, George Crawford '60, who accused Yale law enforcement officers of "using very poor judgement...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: Encounter With Yale Policemen Causes Conflict Between 'Poonies | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

...contrast to Crawford, 'Poon President Edward Tarlov '60 took a broad view of the matter, laughing off the confiscation as a "pretty poor effort." He grounded his assertion on the fact that, despite police action, 'Poon candidates had been able to sell a large number of parodies on Bowl grounds. As for the 300 copies, he stated that they were being held in New Haven and would be reclaimed by the magazine this weekend...

Author: By Alexander Korns, | Title: Encounter With Yale Policemen Causes Conflict Between 'Poonies | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

...American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, members listened closely to papers on such diverse subjects as Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Neurospora and Bastards in the Roman Aristocracy. But the most surprising contribution was a half-hour gem of erudition, illustrated with colored slides, on The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers. Author: Crawford H. Greenewalt, 57. whose excursions into advanced ornithology are somehow sandwiched into his workaday duties as president of massive E.I. du Pont de Nemours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...this three more major characters (Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Martha Hyer), three other office romances, a script loaded with schoolgirl sophistication and half-aphorisms ("Old is when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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