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...years the copper-hued tsurigane (hanging bell) of Tokyo's Nishi-arai Dai-shi Temple rang out over the city, its tone as rich as a mighty organ. When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bell That Came Home | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...years, doctors have known that the urinary bladder, more than any other organ in the human body, possesses remarkable powers of regeneration, e.g., after removal of a diseased section, the bladder grows right over the incision to become intact. But until recently doctors did not know how to take complete advantage of this unique power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Regenerating Bladder | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...Tissue. From their previous experiments and from X rays, the doctors charted the growth of the regenerating organ. Almost immediately after B.C.M...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Regenerating Bladder | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...Blend three dashes Benedictine, three dashes grenadine, one-third orange juice, two-thirds dry gin. Stir well in ice, strain, serve in tin cup and stay away from organ-grinders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...talented performer named Wang Ming-chung played the part of the immortal Monkey King who defeated the gods in a rough-and-tumble battle. Finally came an acrobatic ballet and a short, exotic concert on stage, featuring such instruments as the hsiao (bamboo flute), sheng (a super mouth organ), hsiao-na (a straight wooden bugle with a copper bell) and several small drums. When it was all over and the audience was applauding thunderously, the whole troupe appeared onstage and returned the applause-an innovation of the Communists to show solidarity between workers onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peking to Paris | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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