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The Holy Grail-which Sir Lancelot glimpsed for one transcendent instant, which the pure knight, Sir Galahad, and simple Sir Percival sought and found-may now be reposing in the strong room of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth, Wales. It will soon be turned over to a vivacious blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wanted: Home for a Relic | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Next day an equal number packed the same hall to hear the University of Illinois' tart-tongued Neurologist Percival Bailey, a top brain surgeon, dissect the entire psychiatric revolution of the 20th century's first half. Revolutions, Bailey said, "bring change but not necessarily progress." Echoed Cincinnati'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatry Changes Course | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

The most famous discovery of the late Percival Lowell '76--Planet Pluto--may not be a bona fide planet after all. Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory has declared to the scientific world that Pluto is not a planet, but instead only one of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientist Cuts Planet Population; Claims Pluto Is Only a Satellite | 2/9/1956 | See Source »

As Hughes's successor, Ike nominated Percival F. Brundage, 63, for 20 months Hughes's deputy in the Budget Bureau and former senior partner of the top-ranking accounting firm of Price Waterhouse & Co. Brundage (Harvard, '14) is a Republican, father of two, and lives in Montclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Unfixed Asset | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

By mid-November most arguments were threshed out, and the bureau examiners went upstairs to defend their figures before the Director's Review, presided over by Hughes's deputy, Percival Brundage (ex-senior partner of the Price Waterhouse accounting firm). Some half-dozen times Hughes snapped the latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Logical Man | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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