Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First there was the problem of keeping his religion from growing rusty; he rose each day at 5:30 a.m., put in an hour's study of the Talmud before early service at Milwaukee's Beth Jehuda Synagogue, where he is assistant rabbi. Medical school classes began at 8 a.m., and here real complications set in. His full, black beard was a sanitary problem in surgery, requiring special snood-like surgical masks. His tallith katan, a small prayer shawl worn by many Orthodox Jews under their shirts, had to be made of cotton instead of wool -which might...
...advance planning. The nine-day Feast of Tabernacles, for instance, with four days when work is forbidden, fell during a series of lectures before a make-or-break exam in pathology. Abe, as students and professors call him, met the situation by studying by himself all the preceding summer, put himself so far ahead of his class that he could afford to miss the lectures. "I hated like heck to miss them," he explains, "but I creamed that exam...
When lectures came on Saturdays-during which Orthodox Jews are forbidden to work, ride in a vehicle or talk on the phone-Abe would have a friend put a sheet of carbon paper under his lecture notes and hope he remembered to use a ballpoint pen. Sabbath restrictions begin on Friday night, just before sundown, and on occasional Fridays only a lucky break in the traffic has saved him from having to abandon his 1952 De Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow...
COLOR TV SETS will soon be put on sale by Admiral Corp., because President Ross D. Siragusa believes there is finally a good market for color. Other TV makers, except color pioneer RCA, are still skeptical, do not seem likely to join in production. Admiral hopes to overcome consumer color-TV resistance by offering one-year guarantee on all parts, v. usual 90-day warranty...
Color in the Zoo. Yvette Ward's career gives her reason for confidence. A onetime vaudeville dancer, teacher and secretary, she met her husband when she visited his home in 1935 to advise him on interior decoration. Ward put her on one of his most spirited horses-"He wanted to see if I could stay on. I just decided I would. I was like a burr on the horse's back. But he finally decided that if a horse couldn't get rid of me, he couldn't either." They were married...