Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very hard to explain how you can suddenly become a painter, especially for me-I talk like a Spanish cow-but my life absolutely changed from that minute. I started painting 12 and 15 hours a day. I never went to the cafés; I lost all my friends. When the war started I thought, 'Let the bombs fall. They won't fall on me; I have too much work...
...convict and the girl whose life he may save never saw each other. The prisoner, 49, serving a life term for murder in New York State's Sing Sing prison, lay under guard in a ward in Ossining Hospital, on a hill overlooking the high-walled prison. The eight-year-old girl was in a private room in the same building. She was near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing...
...hoped to increase this suspected factor X in the convict's bloodstream by giving it extra work to do in fighting the child's leukemia. It was the first such experiment on human beings, although transfusions of normal blood are standard practice for leukemia victims as a life-prolonging measure. One difficulty had been getting a donor willing to exchange his normal blood for leukemic blood...
...Rootless Family. Eleanor Roosevelt's first installment does have some of the rambling, gossipy quality of a club-car conversation on a long train ride. But from it emerge poignant flashes of the confusion of life with a man who had also married destiny. "As I saw it," she wrote of her reactions to FDR's first election as President, "this meant the end of any personal life for me." She blames her children's early unsuccessful marriages on the fact that in all its peregrinations the family was "not really rooted in any particular home." Surprisingly...
With such intimate insights into the home life of the Roosevelts, McCall's Editor Wiese hoped that his magazine's circulation (about 3,800,000) would catch the Journal's 4,522,000. To help it do so, McCall's spent $120,000 promoting the seven-article series with radio, newspaper and television advertising. Said Editor Wiese: I have no hesitancy in saying we expect this issue to be a sellout...