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...survivors, like Ragans, suffered some degree of paralysis. Stricken at age eleven, she was at first confined to a wheelchair, but gradually recovered enough to lead a normal life. Her slight difficulty in walking and partly paralyzed right arm did not prevent her successful career as an art instructor and painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Polio Echo | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...kept on working with what Ballet Instructor Stanley Williams called a "keen concentration that is inborn." And she prevailed. Her account, with its cool assessments of rivals and careful record of all-important praise, betrays the tough, self-absorbed core that a ballerina must have. But she attributes her success to her profound submission to the will of Balanchine. "All knowledge, all power was his," she writes with total seriousness. "As I saw it, I had no choice but to place all my faith and trust in him." A particularly valuable section recounts in detail what went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balanchiniana Dancing for Balanchine | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...most outstanding teachers of Latin poetry that this country has produced in this century," said. Brown University Classies Professor Michael C. Putnam '54, a former student of Elder. "He was a superb scholar and instructor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former GSAS Dean Elder Dies of Heart Attack at 71 | 1/10/1985 | See Source »

...patches, will reach $1 billion in 1984. More than a year after they appeared and despite the fact hat Coleco, their manufacturer, does not even advertise them, the dolls are still in short supply. That does not hurt sales; in fact, it helps. Says Margaret Preble, a sociology instructor in Virginia: "The shortage gives implied status to those who can get a doll." An official of Toys "R" Us says "thousands of people" are on its Cabbage Patch doll lists in its 198 U.S. stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booming Sales in Toyland | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Fortunately for Siegel, the professor wound up not teaching the second semester, and the new instructor willingly let Siegel participate in the labs...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Breaking Down Barriers | 12/8/1984 | See Source »

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