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Dates: during 1950-1959
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His life to one grand purpose till he dies.

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

Giotto's murals are still young, which means that they will probably live until they crumble. Whether or not Rivera's murals, too, will breathe life for generation after generation is unanswerable. An artist of Rivera's stature might be compared to a rocket that dies boosting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exit a Giant | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Raymond Pelegrin looks like a doctor; his smooth, professional air as the Nerac of the film's opening scenes, and his quiet dismay as he later realizes he is not a god, give a sensitive presentation of a part limited by overuse. Fernand Ledoux, as the old Dr. Delpuech, plays...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Doctors | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Gruesome Ritual. The Fore people, estimated to number 10,000 and only now emerging from the Stone Age, live in a 240-square-mile area 90 miles west of the famed World War II battlefield of Lae (their existence was unknown until 1932). Kuru was first noted in 1951. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Laughing Death | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Eventually the kuru sufferer is completely helpless, unable to swallow, capable of only slight movement and feeble grunts. In a native hut, he dies of starvation, infected bedsores or pneumonia. At Okapa's hospital, Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas have prevented bedsores, and eliminated starvation as a cause of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Laughing Death | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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