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That was in 1911, and the day was long in coming. Sister Kenny admitted that she was stubborn. Others thought her impossibly temperamental. By 1935 she had won lay support but had made mortal enemies of the doctors. A royal commission took 300 pages to denounce the Kenny treatment for polio. But in 1939 it was made available to all patients in Australia who asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Stubborn Sister | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Ideas on Policy: Since the signing of the Japanese treaty, Dulles has called for a shift from the negative policy of containment to something more positive. The still free world, he says, must go over to the initiative in the mortal struggle with Communism. His strategic goal: "To dislocate, by peaceful measures, the internal structure of the Soviet empire." Dulles expounded his ideas in LIFE last May. Senator Robert Taft, during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, accepted the Dulles brand of internationalism, quoted from the LIFE article. As the party's No. 1 statesman, trusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW ADMINISTRATION: Secretary of State | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Pearson, like Cottey, will go both ways, while sophomore Vince Jazwinski will take over for the younger more mortal Lawrence, and Jerry Harverty will replace Kessaris on defense. Harverty is one of the ten letter men on the team, and the 195 pound Jazwinski one of the faster Bruins...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/15/1952 | See Source »

...written into church law, their exact application varies according to diocese. In Providence, R.I. last week, Bishop Russell J. McVinney gave the people of his diocese one of the most severe interpretations of divorce laws yet laid down. Among them: ¶Catholic lawyers are forbidden "under pain of mortal sin" to represent plaintiffs in suits for separation, divorce or annulment of a marriage performed by a Catholic priest, unless they obtain prior permission of their bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Marriage Bans | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...picture of the Egyptian universe. The sky was heaven, personified as the goddess Nut, who was sometimes pictured as arched over the earth. But heaven was also a mirror of the earth, had islands, rivers, marshes and palaces, and was peopled by gods who showed themselves as stars. Each mortal, the Egyptians believed, had his double in heaven, and after death his spirit went forth to join the heavenly double. But the journey upwards was apparently a precarious one, and the burial texts attempted to take every precaution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pharaoh's Journey | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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