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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the American Council on Education rated California "distinguished" in 21 of 35 departments (Harvard: 23). Among California's distinguished professors: Atom-Smasher Ernest Orlando Lawrence, French Scholar Haakon Chevalier, Chemist Gilbert Lewis, Spanish Scholar Rudolph Schevill, Biologist Herbert McLean Evans, Paleobotanist Ralph W. Chaney, Legal Scholar Max Radin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pipes and Old Jokes | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Brainstorms. Many unusual forms of epilepsy are often passed by unnoticed, believes Dr. Richard Max Brickner. Remarkable is the case of "D," a 77-year-old college professor, who, when he opened his eyes in the morning, was often assailed by a violent hurricane of fantastic, guilty and obscene thoughts. Although he would try with all his might, D would be unable to get a sane thought in edgewise." Sometimes within half an hour, often within a day, his brainstorms would abate, leaving him depressed but self controlled. Strangely enough, he had no convulsive movements, would lie passively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...high pugilistic standard that for him anything short of a one-round knockout was a big black demerit, applauded his prowess. In 43 professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven of his opponents, including five onetime world's champions (Braddock, Camera, Baer, Sharkey, Schmeling), has successfully defended his title eight times in the past two years. This record gives Joe Louis a fisticuffer's summa cum laude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Summa cum Laude | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...same meeting, Max D. Gaebler '41 was elected president of the club for the coming year. Gilbert N. Plass '41 was elected vice-president and Richardson L. Spofford '41 was named secretary-treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Stamp Issue To Honor Former University Head | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

...small exhibition at the Neumann-Willard Gallery (24 carefully selected pieces) combined old art and new with almost no jolts. A 15th-Century Christ in the Temple failed to clash with Marc Chagall's pinkish fantasy, Flowers in a Dream, Max Beckmann's strong modern Landscape with Factory or Clemente Orozco's un-Orozcolike The "El" Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Season | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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