Word: facials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post has fashioned one of the world's most influential journalists: Philip L. (for Leslie) Graham, publisher, who started at the top ten years ago without ever having covered a news story, written an editorial or sold an ad. Phil Graham, 40, is an energetic charmer whose facial furrows and tall, angular frame (6 ft. 1 in., 160 Ibs.) give him a Lincolnesque look. Lawyer by profession, politician by instinct, latter-day New Dealer by choice, he became a newspaper publisher by marrying the boss's daughter. He quickly showed that the boss, Multimillionaire Eugene Meyer...
...Some of Dickens' clinical observations may have been based on his own illnesses. He is reported to have suffered from kidney troubles, facial rheumatism, depression, insomnia, pains in the stomach and chest, flatulence, biliousness, nausea, painful foot symptoms and lameness. He died of a stroke...
...attendant doctors, these signs of mental healing are as important as the surgical gains. Although facial deformities are being improved, and the use of frozen hands and limbs gradually restored, plastic surgery can never totally efface the marks of the terrible seconds under the bomb. Shigeko and the others quietly accept this fact. Said one of the girls to an interpreter shortly before she was wheeled into the operating room: "Tell Dr. Barsky not to be worried because he cannot give me a new face. I know that this is impossible, but it does not matter; something has already healed...
...petrified with stage fright that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills that Sullivan has about given up protesting that he has always been sound of wind and limb...
...from obscure Japanese painters to customs of American Indians, from Swiss primitives to Buddhist philosophers. He has argued Communism with Trotsky Hinduism with Nehru. In his dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused by lifelong asthma. He is too intelligent for me," his brilliant old friend, André Gide, once confessed in admiration...