Word: gilbert
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MORE on the positive side is a statement that will be read to a TIME staffer this week. The Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Awards Committee is presenting one of its annual $2,500 awards to Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant for the cover story on surgery (May 3, 1963). It is the second Lasker award he has won; the other was for the virology cover story (Nov. 17, 1961). The committee cited the surgery story and the accompanying twelve pages of color pictures for "graphically portraying the skill of the modern surgical team . . . assessing and putting into perspective a range...
...support of full body weight by the ears is not recommended for the care and handling of dogs, children, or any mammal, even if you want to "let them bark." I am shocked and dismayed. GILBERT O. SEW ALL, D.D.S. Secretary German Wirehaired Pointer Club
...tired of your newspaper with its lockout and stall-in reports? Tired of TV's British satire and hillbilly corn? Of your local theaters' grim neorealism and grimmer (at least in performance) Shakespeare? Then Pinafore is the thing for you. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players are offering a relaxing amateur evening at Agassiz, and I had a rollicking good time...
Enthusiasm is infectious, and the entire cast and staff of Pinafore are enthusiastic beyond belief. It takes only a few minutes for them to recruit the whole audience for their team; after that, no amount of minor inconsistencies or flat notes can keep the crowd from laughing along with Gilbert, hissing the villain, and clapping time to the exit pieces. It is not the best written show of the term, nor is it jam-packed with Harvard's drama talent; but you'll have more fun with G. and S. than with anyone else in town...
...months in jail and a $500 fine. Criminal contempt is no petty offense. Until recently, however, it was almost never punished by more than petty-level penalties. Now the penalties have grown ever stiffer. For example, the Supreme Court in 1958 upheld three-year sentences for Communists Gilbert Green and Harry Winston, who had jumped bail. In the light of such penalties, has criminal contempt now become triable by jury...