Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goldwater "this country's . . . number one peddler of class hatred ... a reactionary ... a stooge for big business . . . mentally unbalanced and needs a psychiatrist." Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams hustled to the rostrum to defend Reuther. (Mused a pleased Michigan Republican: "The people are getting the idea that every time Reuther takes an Alka-Seltzer, Soapy burps...
...planned. Finding that conventional (largely wait-and-see) treatment for a year and a half did nothing to restore Dougherty's sight, Resident Surgeon Joseph Lamar Mays, 33, decided on a rare and ingenious operation developed in Russia and China, seldom done previously in the U.S. The idea: to take one of Dougherty's salivary glands (there are three on each side) and reroute it so that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed...
...Pont Show of the Month: As a "renewer of old treasure," rather than a "maker of new molds," Thornton Wilder found in a one-act play by Prosper Merimee the seed of an idea for his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714," he began it, "the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." It posed the intriguing question: Did they die by accident or by divine plan? Its prose was clean and classical, its characters adroitly limned and it was constructed with the delicacy...
Most of the Masters said they had no idea of the actual number of applicants who would apply to leave, but all generally agreed that it would be a very small...
George Kirklin '59, Student Manager of the Harvard Band, said he had not been informed of any action taken by the Dartmouth group and had no idea what measures the University would take. However, he added that he is meeting with Dean Ballard on Wednesday, presumably to discuss the Dartmouth matter...