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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making detailed brain X rays. After two or three days comes stage two: another hole is drilled higher up in the skull, and the surgeons insert an insulated steel wire through three inches of brain until its thickened electrode tip lodges in the thalamus. The outer end is anchored to the skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Attack on Pain | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...crisscross and drop a puck, and they can crisscross and not drop it, and they won't get fouled up." Lindsay's aggressive play (he is the most penalized player in the league) and Sloan's playmaking brought Litzenberger to life. At week's end he was within four points of leading the league in individual scoring. Pilous figures his Pappy Line is still young enough to stay together two or three more years, and the Pappies themselves shrug off advancing age. Growls Elder Statesman Lindsay: "Old? Like hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Pappy Line | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...protesting purists, Belafonte replies: "All folk songs are interpretations. Otherwise you might as well go back to the first time and say 'ugh.'" He takes a tape recorder with him wherever he goes and the library of his apartment on Manhattan's West End Avenue is crammed with tapes of folk art he has tapped at its source. Near the Brazos River in southeast Texas, he recorded a song about the "rattler," or hound dogs used to track escaped convicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...three-room walkup in a converted brownstone. ("Harry is the only millionaire in America," said a friend at the time, "who goes down to the cellar to empty his own garbage.") Since then they have moved into a more luxurious, ten-room apartment on Manhattan's West End Avenue (there was a splash of newspaper publicity when the landlords on the fashionable East Side refused to rent to a Negro family). Belafonte has collected contemporary paintings and Haitian sculptures, in the vocabulary of his trade cares little for clothes (twelve suits, eight sports jackets, three tuxedos), owns no real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Asano is that she keeps dropping magazines and mothers his cold with Smith Bros, cough drops. The couple soon let woebegones be woebegones, but Mrs. Jacoby's daughter and diplomat son-in-law plant cacti in the path of true love. Only at play's end is Mrs. Jacoby set to make "kosher sukiyaki" her dish of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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