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...still there. His face stretches into weird contortions as he fights for breath. But he has proved, once more, his right to his job as linebacker. (On the other side of the field, Guard Dan Currie slams his 235 lbs. into a blocking dummy, drives the dummy and the scrub who is holding it a good five yards. Assistant Coach Doug Weaver looks pleased. The scrub looks startled. Currie looks down right awesome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Man | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...time, and her metabolism had slowed down drastically. With her breathing volume reduced proportionately, she had lost little water in the form of vapor from her lungs. She had been incredibly fortunate in falling beneath the shade of both the body of the car and heavy oak scrub, and thundershowers conserved her body's water supply by cooling it and checking perspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Will to Live | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Tulane University, and ground his way through Tulane's Medical School in four years. "I didn't know whether I was going to be able to make the grade," said Dr. Mellon when at last it was over. Gwen Mellon learned to be a laboratory technician and "scrub" nurse (in charge of instruments in an operating room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Schweitzer's Footsteps | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Rocky Reform. With the end of their oldest plague, all new things have become possible for the proud, primitive islanders. Italy's ambitious, $2 billion Cassa del Mezzogiorno (Fund for the South) is now transforming the rocky, scrub-covered face of Sardinia. Already the fund's associated agencies have taken over a third of the island's arable land from large holders and passed it out to peasants in 15-acre plots. By draining the old malarial swamps, the agencies are making another 185,000 acres of cropland for small holders. But the most ambitious project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Hope in Sardinia | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...hated the orphanage. As one of the older children, Norma Jeane was assigned to wash the dishes: 100 plates, 100 cups, 100 knives, forks, spoons. "I did it three times a day, seven days a week," says Marilyn. "But it wasn't so bad. It was worse to scrub out the toilets." As payment for their work, most of the children got 5? a month. Since everybody had to put a penny in the plate on Sunday, that left each child with 1? a month to spend. With her penny, Norma Jeane usually bought a ribbon for her hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Aristophanes & Back | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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