Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years. Villon, having refined his palette to the utmost, "touched the earth once again" by returning in 1940 to the vibrant countryside of southwest France. Part of his latest harvest: his superb pastoral illustrations for Virgil's Eclogues (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 6, 1955). Today, at 81, the holder of nearly every award the art world has to bestow, Villon can sum up the goal he has largely achieved: "to express the perfume, the soul of things of which science only catalogues and explains the outward appearance...
Married. Olga Fikotova, 24, dark-eyed Czechoslovakian Olympic discus-hurling champ (a record 176 ft. 1½ in.); and U.S. Olympic Team's Harold Connolly, 25, hammer-throw gold medalist and world-record holder (224 ft. 10½ in.); in Prague...
Dyer's best chance is in the 100-yard freestyle, where his listed time of 49.0 is 0.8 seconds better than that of any other entrant. Robin Moore of Stanford, the world record-holder at 48.9, was injured in football this fall and wil not compete. Olympic 100-meter freestyler Dick Hanley of Michigan (49.8), Don Patterson (50.0) of Michigan State, and the Yale trio of Roger Anderson (50.1), Dave Armstrong (50.1), and Rex Aubrey (50.2) will offer the chief opposition...
Actually, the team contained a nucleus of consistent performers who could be counted on for big points in every meet. Two-miler Pete Reider, captain Dick Wharton, Jim Cairns, record-holder in both the 600 and the 1000, and Harpel, all seniors but Reider, had been the big point producers for three years...
...major disagreement involves stopping the heartbeat. With its major vessels shut down and their blood bypassed to the machine, the heart goes somewhat limp, but keeps on beating because it continues to receive some blood through minor channels. This can be a serious problem: the surgeon wielding his needle holder has to "take aim on a moving target." Moreover, stitches inserted while the heart muscle is tense may tear out. So surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic, headed by Donald Brian Effler, adopted the technique of injecting a heart-stopping chemical, potassium citrate, to let them operate on a completely stilled...