Word: lancasterism
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>Suspicious of the old wives' tale that more babies are born at full moon than other times, Obstetrician Ernest T. Ripp-mann of Lancaster, Pa. checked 9,551 births for a ten-year period, found nothing to it. On the contrary, slightly more babies were born close to the...
Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June 24).
Other men sitting round the Lancaster House table with Dulles accepted the equation, but had their reservations. Western Europeans feared that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. might compromise on a European zone alone. In the process Germany might be left divided, a large part of the continent might conceivably be...
Died. Ward Vinton Evans, 74, chemistry professor emeritus at Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University, and dissenting member of the three-man board that declared Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer a security risk in 1954; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lancaster, Pa. The majority felt that Oppenheimer showed a "susceptibility to...
Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June 24).