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Maryland. For netting no less than 27,252 fireflies in his own and neighboring backyards, eleven-year-old Morgan Mallory Butcher won first prize ($10) plus 25? per 100 fireflies in Johns Hopkins University's annual firefly-catching competition. The fireflies go to a biology professor, who studies them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Private Lives | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Unprecedented U.S. building activity helped Johns-Manville Corp. nail up a net of $10.1 million, a 75% gain. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., which benefited from both the building and auto booms, boosted its $9,100,000 net to $15 million.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Through the Roof | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

In a Washington beauty parlor last week a customer under a drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muzak Hath Charms | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Actually, most of them are feeling just the opposite. Reason: while gifts are at an unprecedented level, so are expenses-and expenses have outrun income. Out of 630 private colleges and universities, the New York Times found in a survey recently, one in five are running deficits. Yale University'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crisis in the Colleges: Can They Pay Their Way? | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Honored at a testimonial dinner and reception in Baltimore by his colleagues at the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations of Johns Hopkins University: Professor Owen Lattimore, as evidence of their faith and confidence in his "integrity as a scholar and loyalty as a citizen."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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