Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN TIME'S Art Researcher Martha Peter Welch began to check the story of the Mount Vernon Museum's miniature of Martha Custis Washington (see ART), supposedly a 1772 work of Charles Willson Peale, she discovered Yale University had another miniature, also thought to be the 1772 Peale portrait. Since both were acquired from direct descendants of the nation's first First Lady, the museum and university quietly began to reconcile their claims...
...expatriate Hungarian cavalryman who ran a Long Island livery stable, Jerkens has spent most of his life around horses, was only 15 when he bought his first mount, an unfashionable, sore-legged colt named Crack Time. He spent long, cold months patching up his purchase and galloping the horse through the snow. By the time racing started at Aqueduct, Crack Time was ready. The cheap colt won $12,615 before it was lost in a $10,000 claiming race...
Vermont--North Troy, Jay Peak, fair to good; Stowe, Mount Mansfield, four trails and slopes open and fair to good, Spruce Peak area closed; Wilmington, Mount Snow, no skiing upper, poor to fair lower, fair to good on lower Overbrook...
...possible price-fixing conspiracy. In an attempt to keep sugar prices from soaring higher, the Agriculture Department again increased sugar-marketing quotas, the second time in less than a month. But as consumer buying and business spending (expected to rise another 10% in 1957 first quarter) continued to mount, few believed that the price line could be held...
...blot was removed from the 1956 Salk vaccine record. The death of James Thomson, 15, of Mount Vernon, Wash., had officially been reported as resulting from polio, although he had three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...