Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patricia Stenz has flung a bold challenge that she would "grow hair on any person" under the observation of the A.M.A. Should she not succeed, her failure would be well advertised, and her business would probably go under. On the face of it, this is in the noble Galilean tradition of experiment. The medieval thinker, embodied in Dr. Morris Fishbein, rejects experiment and observation, and asserts from his armchair that the thing is impossible. Are the "dead cells" in his scalp, or are they a few centimeters lower...
...TIME reader who raises pure bred Holsteins and Guernseys in Brockport, N.Y., writes: "I would like to hire a displaced person. There is just one major requirement: He must be a man who loves cattle. I will furnish the man with a house, electricity for all purposes except heat, such milk as he wishes to use, and I will pay him $100 a month...
After lunch, Stravinsky usually tends to stacks of personal and business correspondence (in four languages: Russian, French, English, German), sees friends and sometimes visitors, whom Stravinsky likes or dislikes instantly. Says one of his intimate friends, Attorney Aaron Sapiro: "When I bring a guest to his house or a person who wishes to talk to him, Stravinsky will excuse himself after a few minutes, call me to the hallway and say either 'take him away, he's insincere,' or 'I like him, we will enjoy this...
...calm easily. At long last she comes to realize that the Army always has its reasons: Miss Dietrich is being used to smoke her jealous Nazi lover out of hiding. By the time he emerges the rest of the cast has so conducted itself that he seems the only person in the picture one might possibly have sympathy for. He is killed before there is any chance to find...
Hero Jack Dillon-like Author Cain a Baltimore Irishman-tells the story in the first person, a common practice in Cain's novels, which absolves the author from having to write in English. Cain's command of the I'm-telling-you-brother vernacular has been compared with Lardner and Hemingway, but it is neither as inventive as Lardner's nor as selective as Hemingway's. It often sounds like what it often is-something the movies picked up pure and handed back to Americans as if it had been their...