Word: offbeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME reporters were on hand, of course, for the major stories this week, but I would like to mention just two examples of offbeat coverage...
...dramatic. No one was sure yet what had been wrong with him, but a measure of credit for the Pope's recovery was being given to Dr. Gasbarrini, 72, gastrointestinal specialist, who washed out the Pope's highly acid stomach with an alkaline solution, and discontinued the offbeat treatments of Swiss Dr. Paul Niehans (who injects animal cells into humans to replace worn-out tissues...
...down his style. "I don't think it's like anybody else's," he says. "I didn't think about it until other people started describing it. They described it in so many ways, I get kind of mixed up. I guess it's offbeat, casual. I get a line I figure will be funny or not, and I don't try to figure...
Swing in the '30s put Chicago jazz into large bands with massed rhythms and careful arrangements. In the late '40s bop became briefly fashionable, with its air-splitting protests against swing stereotypes, but bop's own offbeat, spastic rhythms quickly palled. The jazz style called modern does not protest against anything very much except dullness. At its best, it swings as vigorously as any of its predecessors, but once it starts swinging, it seems to move on to more interesting matters, such as tinkering up a little canon à la Bach or some dissonant counterpoint...
Never a star athlete, Case showed his prowess in offbeat competitions. He won a prune-eating contest at a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. And on his library mantel is a cup given him for winning a heel-and-toe walking race at a fair near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...