Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...
...emotional Japanese, St. Francis' arm was something more than a reminder. Cried one white-haired man in Nagasaki, a Japanese Catholic center, as he stood, rosary in hand, to watch the procession go by: "We have seen the second coming of St. Francis Xavier...
Arthritis is one of man's and animals' oldest identifiable diseases; traces of it have been found in the bones of Neanderthal man and of dinosaurs. But doctors have no sure idea of its cause or cure. Ten years ago, when the International Congress on Rheumatic Diseases last met, the yanking of teeth and tonsils was a leading treatment recommended by the rheumatics experts. Last week, when the Congress gathered in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the 794 physicians from the U.S. and 25 foreign countries were excited about emotions and hormones...
Bing had been met that March night by Manager Johnson and a little knot of gracious but sharp-eyed Met directors. They apparently liked what they saw: a tall, fastidious man of 47, with charm and a manner of quick, cool decision. At lunch next day, they raised a question: would he consider leaving Glyndebourne and his great Edinburgh Festival (TIME, Sept. 20) to succeed retiring General Manager Johnson in 1950? Rudolf Bing considered it carefully. The Met's directors liked him even better for the way he candidly answered their questions about his policies and prescriptions for curing...
...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 to volunteer as guinea pigs for medical experiments.* Chief Prison Physician Charles C. Sweet had no trouble finding a man willing to take a chance, although he offered no rewards...