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Alchemist. In Orlando, Fla., facing a forgery charge for boosting a check, Clarence Hickey, 25, pleaded magic, explained that a fortune teller had sprinkled a pile of white powder on the check which instantly increased its worth from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Clean Shirts. In 1940 Libby married Leonor Hickey, a young teacher of physical education who first heard about Libby from a friend's maid ("He's not terribly exciting," said the maid, "but he always wears clean shirts"), and still regards him as a goodhearted country boy who wears unsophisticated clothes. "He thinks he's a wonderful bridge player," confides Mrs. Libby, "but he's really lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Philosophers' Stone | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Louis School Superintendent Philip Hickey announced that a "major learning program" for gifted students will begin in city high schools next fall. Guided by special teacher-counselors, selected students will be encouraged to take extra courses, work on study projects outside class, engage in extracurricular activities; moreover, their parents will be urged to send them through college or advanced technical training. Required for admittance to the program: an outstanding ability in a particular field, e.g.," languages, mathematics and an I.Q. at least 20 points above the class average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...Navy had found out enough about Pride to name him chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics-the first non-Annapolis man ever to head a bureau. He kept out of public participation in the unification and B-36 battles, but Admiral Robert Hickey, now chief of staff to the Navy's Far East commander, says: "He was in there fighting, you can bet on that, but nobody would even have known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PRIDE OF THE SEVENTH FLEET | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

WILLIAM JAMES HICKEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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