Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running or just puttering, U.S. hand-ballers compete on courts ranging from a single concrete wall in a Brooklyn park to the four-walled, all-glass, air-conditioned, $32,000 pleasure dome given to an Aurora, Ill. Y.M.C.A. by Robert W. Kendler, founder and president of the U.S. Handball Association and chief evangelist of a sport of evangelists. Kendler lives for handball; on the side, he is a Chicago millionaire (building construction). Kendler bristles at the imputation that his game is a lowbrow cousin of squash, can point to such distinguished handballers as Literary Critic Lionel Trilling and television...
...These rarely recorded songs are the fruits of a collaboration between Beethoven and a Scottish office clerk named George Thomson, who made a hobby of collecting folk music. To render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy titles as Faithful Johnie and The Lovely Lass of Inverness. All the tunes have...
...infinitesimal amounts of contaminants technically known as "congeners." The hangover victim who argued, "It isn't the alcohol, it's the congeners," was largely right, but chemists did not know which congeners were to blame. A new technique for separating minute amounts of congeners, said Consultant Robert Carroll, working with Connecticut's Perkin-Elmer Corp., has made it possible to identify eight congeners already, with more to come. Definitely harmful among those identified are acetaldehyde and isoamyl alcohol...
Side Effects. About there the agreement ended. Dr. Robert F. Bradley Jr. of Boston's famed Joslin Clinic, reporting on 1,000 patients intensively studied, said tolbutamide gave good control in 55% and fair control in 14%. For chlorpropamide and metahexamide, the proportions were about the same-but not the patients: some who did poorly on tolbutamide responded to one of the other drugs, and a few who failed on two responded to the third. There was no denying that side effects (skin rashes, nausea, vomiting, heartburn) were more common with chlorpropamide and metahexamide, and there were...
Beauty & Food. The hard-hit appliance industry came back in strength. Earnings of Whirlpool Corp. were up sharply from last year's 29^ a share to 80^. With sales up 12% in the first quarter, Borg-Warner Corp.'s President Robert S. Ingersoll announced a 45% hike in earnings, noted that Borg-Warner has "a very substantial portion" of the parts orders for the Ford and General Motors small cars. Admiral Corp., reported a profit on a sales rise of 15%. Said President Ross D. Siragusa: "All the bad things are behind...