Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Washington University's Dr. Winfred Overholser, 67, one of the nation's top professors of psychiatry, best known as superintendent of Washington's famed St. Elizabeths Hospital. Overholser's first interest was economics. A witty New Englander (Worcester, Mass.), he went to Harvard Business School, switched careers after a short stint as an attendant in a mental sanitarium. After medical school at Boston University, he wound up as commissioner of Massachusetts' department of mental diseases. When terrible-tempered Governor James Michael Curley fired him in 1936, U.S. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes hired...
...will return to Turkey. The find opens a new chapter in the history of art, providing a missing link between the culture of the Euphrates basin and that of archaic Greece. Similarities in style show that Greek traders and marauders must have brought home in their hollow ships a mass of Phrygian treasure-which in turn helped shape Greek...
...cholera which used to sweep through Puri after the festival. Holy men, their naked | bodies smeared with ashes, and the "walking dead" (lepers and the congenitally deformed) begged their way through the crowds. Along the route the gods would travel peddlers hawked souvenirs. And through the shrill mass moved boys with water buckets and bicycle pumps to spray the sea of heads in the searing heat...
Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: Hilary (new play), with Joan Fontaine...
...Varian Associates this year, six key employees were piqued because they got less than 1% of the swapped stock; in April they stalked off with four others to form Metco (Microwave Electronic Tube Co.) and compete with their former employer. Within nine days they had a plant in Salem, Mass., financing, firm contracts and a production schedule calling for June deliveries of microwave tubes. "Within a year," predicts Founder Richard Broderick, former Bomac treasurer, "we'll have 100 employees. And in three years, we'll be back on the highway...