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...twisted an ear lobe, grinned, broke into a chuckle and said: "Well, I will tell you, I think first you ought to interview the squirrels and find out if anybody is unhappy. I don't see any reason of producing another pressure group until we find out they are really unhappy, with a freedom I would personally dearly love." Before anyone could ask whether that was an announcement that he would not run for reelection, the U.P.'s Merriman Smith shouted, "Thank you, Mr. President," and the conference was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: And Then the Squirrels | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Senora R. | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Actor Zachary (Mildred Pierce) Scott returned from a Mexican fishing trip wearing a plain gold earring in his pierced left ear lobe. Said Mrs. Scott: "There has never been the slightest unpleasantness about it. Of course, it attracts attention, particularly from the ladies. Everybody seems to enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Rich, Full Life | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...fallen completely out of love with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Looking Backward | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...hypothalamus for an hour a day, and the animals ate up to ten times as much as usual. A few days after stimulation is stopped, the monkeys' appetites go back to normal. The seat of a monkey's love for bananas evidently is deep in the frontal lobe of the brain: current applied here will make him refuse bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ocean of the Mind | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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