Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter received hundreds of replies. In 1940, when Albert de Rhode '04 wrote, "Memorial Hall should be cherished for what it represents, not for what it may seem to the present generation. We shouldn't object to an ancestor's portrait because of his large nose...
Last week three North Koreans brought Kim back to Panmunjom in a jeep and handed him over-although, they said, the eleven-year-old boy was a spy. Except for a runny nose, he was evidently none the worse for his experience. Under the watchful eyes of the North Korean soldiers, Kim recited a little speech, saying that South Koreans had paid him 2,000 won (about 33?) to cross the bridge and spy on Communist troop movements. Later, over a snack of hamburger and cookies, he confirmed what U.N. officers had already guessed-that the Reds had told...
Most ivory-tower plastic surgeons are concerned with correcting some of mankind's more serious deformities-not with making "cosmetic" repairs such as nose bobbing or face lifting. This attitude is too narrow and too stuffy, according to Dr. Adolph Abraham Apton of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital: anything that makes a person feel uncomfortably conspicuous leads to mental upsets and ought to be corrected if possible. Dr. Apton's motto: "Plastic surgery is a surgical method of psychotherapy...
...book, Your Mind and Appearance (Citadel; $3), Dr. Apton defends his theory. Many children's personalities are warped, he argues, because they happen to be born with jug ears, and get teased about them. Often the nose is the worrisome feature-and it does not have to be as big as Cyrano de Bergerac's. The passion to possess a sort of U.S. standard nose, says Dr. Apton, brings him patients who want their broad, flat noses built up with a bit of ridge, others who want their ridges taken down a notch. Dr. Apton generally obliges...
Fairless became a crack salesman for Central Steel, thought up ingenious tricks to grab business, often from under U.S. Steel's nose. By the time he was 38, Fairless was president of Central. When Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton combined it with his new Republic Steel in 1930, Fairless became executive vice president of the new giant. Soon Big Steel's Myron Taylor discovered that wherever Big Steel was losing business, it was frequently losing it to Fairless. Taylor went after him, and hired...