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Alabama's Lister Hill said indignantly that Harris had been tossed out without notice, a sorry piece of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prayer Unanswered | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Alabama's Senator Lister Hill came out of his chair like a rooster flapping for the high roost, began squawking in protest. But Chavez had successfully brought off a slick parliamentary maneuver.* A vote was taken. The motion passed, 49 to 17. The FEPC fight was out in the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strictly from Dixie | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Solomonic Judgment? Whether the uniformed chiefs agreed or not, their diverse blueprints might yet be overlaid to make the plan of a structure which all would have to accept and support. As Senator Lister Hill (a merger advocate) told the Navy in a Solomonic judgment: "You could take that entire overall setup depicted in your chart and lay it over the Army plan without greatly disturbing either one." The Army would get the merger it has fought for; the Air Forces would get its equality; the Navy would get the overall coordination it has preached. Each would have to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MERGER: Fishwives & Red Herrings | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Guthrie repeats the convention that Lister is the father of antiseptic surgery. Shaw says-accurately-that other surgeons practiced cleanliness before Lister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shaw on Disease | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Never was a guinea pig more warmly welcomed. For 20 months young Henley lay on his back, while the daring Lister torturously scraped the infected foot bones with antisepticized instruments. To the general astonishment, gangrene failed to set in. When the scraping was successfully finished, the patient sat up and called for pencil and paper. Soon the editor of London's Cornhill Magazine began publishing Henley's In Hospital-a series of poems which concluded with the now-famed Invictus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unbowed Head | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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