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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Piet Mondrian, not all Dutch artists are squares. The most noted American abstract expressionist, Willem de Kooning, is Rotterdam Dutch, and his opposite number in Europe, Karel Appel, is Amsterdam Dutch. Last week Appel both enthralled and infuriated the home town with a major retrospective at Amsterdam's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Appel | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Dr. McDowell explained the risks. Jane Crawford and her farmer husband Thomas were willing. So she set out on horseback, the tumor resting on the saddle pommel, from Greensburg to Danville, Ky. The 60-mile journey lasted "a few days"-Dr. McDowell does not record just how many. Then, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery & Psalms | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

"Having placed her on a table of the ordinary height, on her back, and removed all her dressing which might in any way impede the operation, I made an incision . . . nine inches in length . . . extending into the cavity of the abdomen . . . The tumor then appeared full in view, but was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery & Psalms | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Virginia-born, Scottish-educated Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830), practicing in the tiny (pop. 1,000) frontier town, had dared what the most eminent surgeons in the capitals of Europe would not have attempted. Patient Crawford, who had been given only opium pills and remained conscious, reciting psalms, during the operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery & Psalms | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Dr. Burney's article did not reach the A.M.A.'s Chicago office until Nov. 2. This was well after the Reader's Digest had hit the stands with its November issue showing (from tests by a reputable private laboratory) that several brands of filtered cigarettes, marketed since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dates & Filters | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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