Word: hammersmith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large whitewashed studio in the London borough of Hammersmith works a wild-haired, chalk-faced old man who wryly likes to compare himself to the Prophet Elijah. "You have to pay for working alone for 40 years," Sculptor Leon Underwood says. "The ravens fed me; but since ravens do not have watches, they often came very irregularly." Today, at 71, Underwood does not have to depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved...
Married. Tony Richardson, 33. gangling director of neorealist stage (Look Back in Anger) and screen (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning); and West End Actress Vanessa Redgrave. 25, Actor Sir Michael's willowy daughter; in London's Hammersmith Register Office...
...away-from-it-all homes that Jackie and Jack Kennedy have used since he became President (Virginia's Glen Ora. Papa Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach mansion, and the Hyannisport complex), Newport has special meaning. It was on the green-lawned, Angus-stocked, 97-acre Hammersmith Farm, owned by her stepfather and mother, Hugh and Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers. It was in the rambling, red-roofed Auchincloss manor that she made her 1947 debut. It was in Newport's St. Mary's Church that Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy were married...
...course, there were presidential responsibilities. A once-a-day plane brought top-priority papers from Washington; the President considered them, a lapful at a time, while sunning on the Hammersmith Farm veranda. In the den was a telephone tied directly to the White House, permitting him to talk to any place in the world at any time. During his Newport rest, that telephone did not ring often...
Physicians have long suspected that drastic measures like the code of Hammersmith might halt the advance of resistant "hot" staph, but no such sweeping trial (involving 452 staph infections in 5,239 patients) had been made before. The Hammersmith team concludes confidently that by these means, along with old-fashioned hygiene, antisepsis and asepsis (TIME, Oct. 12), the hot staph can be checked...