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...Hopeless as it seemed, Freddie's case was studied carefully at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange. Dr. Kessler showed Mrs. Thomason how to exercise Freddie to develop his trunk muscles, rolling him from side to side and making him twist as much as possible. Back home in Magnolia, where her husband is a radio repairman, Mrs. Thomason exercised Freddie for 45 minutes, twice a day, for almost a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Freddie Stands Up | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...role only once removed from Claudia, Actress McGuire plays a hopeless romantic who fastens on an earnest young doctor (William Lundigan) and plots an ideal marriage, complete with fireside evenings together. The courtship is punctuated with emergency calls, the wedding is almost interrupted by the telephone, and the honeymoon just happens to dovetail with a medical convention ("How," asks the bride, "did you choose Detroit?"). Dorothy soon finds that she can share her husband's work even less than his time. In the first flush of pregnancy, she is appalled to learn that he passes off her symptoms with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 20, 1950 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Apparently disregarding a warning block signal, apparently blind to the glare of No. lys's approaching headlight, Motorman Jacob Kiefer took No. 192 down the section of double track and roared on into the gantlet. Markin's whistle was a shrill and hopeless warning of the rending crash of steel on steel as the two trains collided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Late Train Home | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Whether his words were wise or not, Churchill had greatly strengthened the worldwide impulse for a final try, no matter how hopeless the prospect seemed, for an atomic agreement between the U.S. and Russia. The London Times was grateful: "It will no longer be possible for historians to write that the general election of 1950 was concerned with every question except the one that mattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Out of the Cupboard | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...wife and children Roman Catholics. In Ditty's mind was the recollection of an aunt and a great-aunt who had died of cancer. Ditty and her mother went back to the hospital. There Dr. William E. Smith gave them his report: Sergeant Paight's case was hopeless; he had at the most two months to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONNECTICUT: For Love or Pity | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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