Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip Francis Maguire, 37, is a genial, rock-jawed Irishman who went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...
...minor outbreak of infantile paralysis (in Arkansas) may demonstrate something that doctors and parents everywhere very much want to know-how well the Kenny treatment of poliomyelitis works out in an epidemic. To Little Rock, where 25 children were down with polio, rushed a group of physiotherapists and nurses to whom the Australian nurse has been teaching her revolutionary exercise treatment (TIME, June 23, Dec. 15, 1941) in the Minneapolis General Hospital...
...generation of jokesters grew up to keep legend and complex alive. Some of the stories were shrewd psychology, like the one about the Little Rock man who tried to get a job in Manhattan, was asked where he was from, said: "Arkansas. Now laugh, damn you." Others, like the Uncle Fud and Aunt Dudie gags of Cinemactor Bob Burns, were sheer libel and humiliating ridicule. All of them gave Arkansas the shakes...
...State declared war on denigrating Native Son Bob Burns, forced him to return to a Little Rock mass meeting and explain. He promised to present "a truly sympathetic character" in the movies, subsequently withdrew from Paramount's scheduled Wizard of Arkansas because it caricatured his native State. When Paramount sued, all Arkansas rose in Burns's defense...
Equipment of all kinds will be on demonstration and slides and movies of ce-climbing and rock climbing in New England will be shown. In addition there will be talks by the president and the officers of the club, as well as by Kenneth Henderson, member of the K-2 expedition to Tibet and president of the American Alpine Club...