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Peppy, pottering Dr. Herbert Putnam, 78, longtime head of the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...mellow statesman is fire-breathing Hamilton Fish, since 1919 the chosen U. S. Representative of the 249,589 inhabitants of Orange, Putnam and Dutchess counties in New York. To onetime Tackle Ham Fish, who represents in Harvard football history what the late Big Bill Edwards did in Princeton's, the day is lost that brings no new scrimmage, no fresh fray into which he can charge with windmilling arms, roof-raising voice and not-quite legal logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idle Hands | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Administrative Board of the Medical School Alexander Forbes '04, professor of Physiology, and William B. Castle '17, professor of Medicine, replace Kenneth D. Blackfan, Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics, and Tracy J. Putnam '15, professor of Neurology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED IN ARTS AND SCIENCES | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Brain Waves. Chief of the Institute's brain-wave station is young, German-born Dr. Paul Frederick Adam Hoefer, who came from Boston with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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