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"We've been planning on a new lab for game time," Emery L. Chafee, chairman of the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics, said yesterday. "Sites behind Pierce and Croft laboratories and next to Jefferson had been considered," he added.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Applied Sciences Lab Will Be Built on Oxford St. | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

The troubled little woman who went to the out-patient clinic of Manhattan's famed Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases in May 1949 was neatly but cheaply dressed. She described herself to the admission clerk as Margaret Williams Pierce, unmarried. Age: 62. Occupation: telephone operator-receptionist. Salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Such Kindness | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Patient Pierce was suffering from a breast cancer, and it was so far advanced that surgery was impossible. Memorial's doctors gave her drugs to ease the pain and hormones to slow the cancer's spread, thus prolonged the life they could not save. Week after week Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Such Kindness | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

A year after her first visit to the clinic, Margaret Pierce became gravely ill, was admitted to another hospital. The nurse who put her to bed was surprised to find that she carried $4,000 in cash. Within three days Margaret Pierce was dead. Soon her will was filed; except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Such Kindness | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

To test their tempers, he drove around town blasting his horn at motorists ahead of him at stop lights. He crinkled paper continuously in movies, badgered salesgirls by such tricks as taking 10 minutes to choose between two pairs of cheap socks and going to the goldfish counter of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Kerchoo! | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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