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...history of public health at Harvard goes back to 1913 when the school originated as an experiment called The School of Public Health Officers of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. President Lowell of Harvard had long nurtured an interest in preventive medicine. When the time was ripe, he gave the go-ahead to a group of Harvard and M.I.T. doctors to form the school. Taking the Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene in the Medical School as a nucleus, they began operating in the fall of 1913. Seven students formally registered in this--the first school...
...faction, this gave them a solid 100-man obstructionist bloc in the Senate, and golden opportunities for delaying and debauching the democratic process, as they proved in the Palm Sunday rumpus over electoral reform (TIME, April 6), when furniture flew and members grappled. Last week, the time and opportunity ripe, Premier Alcide .de Gasperi decided to move against his Communist enemies in the Senate. Five years having passed since the last election, it was constitutionally mandatory to dissolve the lower Chamber and order a new election; Senators serve for six years, and still have a year...
...exhibition, De Kooning celebrates woman in huge canvases covered with fierce slashes, stabs, splashes and streams of lush color. His women look as ripe as Tiepolo's baroque matrons, but they are fully clothed and mighty ugly, with ox eyes, balloon bosoms, pointy teeth and vaguely voracious little smiles. He pictures them in no particular setting, but somehow they convey the impression of being terribly tough, big-city, mid-20th-century dames...
...country." Even London's Laborite Daily Mirror had a kind word for Bertie McCormick: "Now he is with us once more . . . and has been summing us up again. Bless him. Bless his stupid old rancorous heart." The News Chronicle even suggested the time might be ripe to open the question of "a Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Esteem between Britain and the colonel...
When Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 58, decided that the time was ripe for his twelfth marriage (this time to Mrs. Lillian Bishop Alvear, 29-year-old divorcee and mother of two children), he found the process getting slightly more difficult. The city clerk in New Rochelle, N.Y. refused to sell him a license; but he was able to buy one in Greenwich, Conn., which requires a five-day wait. Then came bad news from Manhattan. Anita Frances Roddy-Eden Manville, his most recent wife, who bought a Mexican divorce last year, swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills when she heard...