Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wally Cook, who has already defeated Holy Cross and Exeter, will do the pitching for the Crimson. If Cook tires in the late innings, second baseman and captain Al Martin, who struck out 15 men in his win at Andover, will relieve...
...ancient fear of leprosy is fast disappearing-so much so that the late Father Damien's famed settlement for leprosy patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokai is being opened to tourists. From a peak of 1,180 active cases in 1890, the settlement today has only 75. Since some 150 recovered patients prefer to remain, officials hope to give them a livelihood as guides and taxi drivers by encouraging outside visitors...
People First. The possibilities of irreplaceable loss to the art world were monstrous. On the museum's ground floor was a special on-loan show of 63 paintings by the late Cubist Painter Juan Gris. In the gallery above the fire hung more than 150 works by famed 19th century French Pointillist Painter Georges Seurat, including four of his seven major canvases, lent by U.S. and European collectors (TIME, Jan. 20). Only one closed fire door stood between the acrid smoke and scorching heat and the pick of the museum's permanent collection, richest and choicest trove...
Gold Thread. When his mother finally takes the boy to a Copenhagen specialist it is too late to do more than prolong his eyesight for a few years, but back home in the town concert hall it is still early enough for the boy to find an exciting new sense of vocation. A violin note spins out over the hushed audience, "thin and glittering like a gold thread in sunlight . . . the echo felt like a kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense...
Aunt Fanny, medium of the news from the late Mr. Halloran, busily went about ordering first-aid kits and jars of olives ("Just a few small luxuries.") against the day that Sears, Roebuck would probably not be open for business...