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...Catatonic Schiz?" In Female Admitting, a handsome Negro girl was brought in on a stretcher. Her eyes were wide open, but she lay motionless. "She went out cold like this all of a sudden, while we were sitting in a nightclub," said her husband. "For no reason, just all of a sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Saturday Night | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...seemed to go on and on. The audience was paralyzed and Ansermet cocked his head increduously. Suddenly everyone blushed and started whispering in horror-stricken tones. Orchestra members grinned at each other and hushed repitions of the offending note could be heard. Primrose, motionless, paled perceptibly but otherwise looked unconcerned. With a lunge, Anserment brandished his baton and plunged into the third movement...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...bomb went off with a deafening, almost smokeless, explosion at 10:20 p.m. The front of the house was reduced to sagging debris in a split second. Moore's wife rose, wounded, dazed and screaming, amid a tangle of dust-clouded wreckage. But Moore lay motionless. He bled gently from the mouth and died just after his terrified friends got him to a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: The Uninvited Guest | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...second goal was scored when left wing Tom Little got around the Crimson fullbacks and made a perfect cross to Hall in the goal mouth. Craven tried to smother the ball, but he slipped and fell two feet from the ball. Hall also slipped, but while the ball remained motionless recovered in time to hit the empty cage...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Booters Lose to Amherst, 2-0, in Slow, Muddy Game | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...havoc with the acoustics, made the most desirable spots those on a chairless balcony above the platform. Astute music lovers sacrificed comfort, sat on the balcony floor, their feet dangling over the edge. At the second night's concert, the tramontane brought an unseasonable downpour that soaked the motionless audience to the skin before the concert was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out in the Open | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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