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...NOMINATE HENRY A. WALLACE BECAUSE OF HIS PRACTICALITY, FORESIGHT AND COURAGE IN COMBATING RUTHLESS WARMONGERING MINORITY IN HIGH AND LOW PLACES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

After the operation, he tends to overeat, may double his weight if he is not careful. But in six months to a year, as new patterns form, he becomes a cheerful extrovert. Psychologists have found no evidence that lobotomy impairs intelligence, though foresight and initiative are often diminished. At Boston's Psychopathic Hospital, whose staffmen have done 200 lobotomies, Director Harry Caesar Solomon reports that patients, after lobotomy, have done well as college students, math teachers, businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kill or Cure | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

They would all have to come back for New Year's eve, and he was glad he had the foresight to get a date. He would have to stay out all night and get drunk; it was the part of Christmas season he always talked about most fondly and was never quite sure whether it was worthwhile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thin Wallets, Cooing Maids Usher in Yule | 12/17/1946 | See Source »

...Soledad; the rest of the employees are Cubans. The Atkins Foundation was the first to introduce teak to Cuba and has succeeded in producing better strains of sugar cane through selection and breeding. A terrific hurricane in 1935 wreaked great damage to the trees in the Soledad Gardens but foresight in planting duplicate trees prevented excessive losses...

Author: By Walde PROFFITT Jr., | Title: Cambridge Is Center of Widely Scattered Research Empire Departments of Astronomy, Art, Botany, Biology Have Distant Outposts | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

...Hindsight is always easier than foresight, however," he said, adding that he felt it was unreasonable to suppose the H.A.A. should have known in September and early October that Saturday's contest would bring out the demand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hard to Call Sellout, Says Bingham; Council Hits at Ticket Inefficiencies | 11/21/1946 | See Source »

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