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...special "atmosphere not found in the cold, harsh light of day." Joe is not much interested in painting people. "You don't find people around the street lamps -especially in out-of-the-way places. It'd be phony to put them in. A guy and a gal would distract from the painting-they'd look all gooey and drippy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Night Side | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...Truck. Republic Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, N.Y. told about its giant truck-borne Thermos bottle for fueling rockets and rocket planes. One tank on the 12½-ton truck contains 700 gallons of water-alcohol mixture. A second, 900-gal, tank, carefully insulated, carries "lox" (liquid oxygen), which is also needed by rockets. Since lox gasifies above -297° F., the insulated tank is necessary for fueling on the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Gadgets, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...camera caught Miss McCormick -who appears to be a rather tall gal-in the act of ramming her snickersnee between the shoulders of an animal called (jokingly?) a bull . . . In Wyoming, such a pore little critter, although admittedly a male, wouldn't be classed as a bull but as a tail-end yearlin'. Lack of size and length of horns denote immaturity. His contours suggest he was dogied while very young. Quite possibly he was a convalescent from aftosa; certainly his home range has had a long dry spell. The carcass must have been quite inferior carne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...never knowingly bought anything I heard advertised on the air"), Webster is gentler in his handling of the programs themselves, and sometimes worries for fear one of his satires may make a performer unhappy. Last week he was cheered to get a letter from The Lonesome Gal (TIME, June 26, 1950), assuring him that she was delighted with a recent cartoon that showed an adolescent snarling "Mush!" at her honeyed comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cartoon Critic | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Mabel Carmon grew up in Streator, Ill., took her training at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, soon became the "righthand gal" of Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who headed Lying-in from its opening in 1895 to his death in 1942. She first went to work for him in 1907, when Lying-in was running a three-bedroom, gaslit hospital in Chicago's stockyards district, and when nearly all U.S. infants were born at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flexible Autocrat | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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