Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Columbia's Dickinson W. Richards, 1956 prizewinner for his work in cardiology: "Every scientist suffers when there is any restriction, at any level, to the free exchange of knowledge. Except insofar as restrictions are required by the exigencies of national defense, we believe that there should be no...
Soon he begins to tell himself that he wants desperately to marry her. "I don't want to be a middle-aged man keeping a girl somewhere." But he is old enough to know it would never work out. And then again: "Is it fair to have children at...
¶Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski, world record holder outdoors, vaulted 15ft. but could finish no better than fifth. The winner: Tarzan-like Don Bragg, 24, who tied three challengers at 15 ft. 3½ in., but got first place on the basis of fewer misses.
End of a Fight. For old Bill Keck, it was the end of a long fight to stay independent in an age of integration and merger. A California wildcatter who first struck it rich in 1922, he steadfastly refused to go into refining and marketing, or merge with anyone who...
Why does he go on? The psychiatrists have grandly labeled the lovable fraud a borderline schizophrenic with a document syndrome and something like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of...