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Her great-grandfather was famed, hotheaded Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart. Her initial E stands for Elizabeth; she dropped the name to spite her twice-divorced mother. With 20 Ib. less, Stuart might be called a Scarlett O'Hara type. She traveled in Europe and Mexico, attended two private schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headstrong Publisher | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

> The "Luther of Medicine," who violently attacked the authority of Galen, was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. He was born in Switzerland in 1493. (Last week in Manhattan the New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: After Hippocrates | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Ambitious, hotheaded young Dr. Arnulfo Arias bounced brashly into Panamanian politics nine years ago when he led a handful of youthful revolutionaries into the Presidential Palace, forced the resignation of President Florencio Arosemena. Up to the vacated post stepped First Vice President Dr. Ricardo Alfaro. Last year Drs. Arias and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Arias II | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Twelve years ago the South rose in hotheaded revolt, sent its voters to the polls, and knocked over a political tradition which had stood firm for half a century. Democratic since the last Yankee administrator went home in 1877, the South in

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The South Reacts | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Ireland's hatches were thus battened about as tight as they could be, except for one factor-the outlawed, extreme-nationalist I. R. A. Nothing short of the unification of all Ireland under its own brand of fascism suits the hotheaded Irish Republican Army, which maintains a complete underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Against Everybody? | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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