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By Plane & by Foot. Early this year, the Manhattan doctors started treating 24 Africans from remote parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. Most of the patients traveled to Nairobi and Kampala, some by hospital plane, others by ambulance or on shanks' mare, barefoot. They represented more than a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Battling Cancer by Infusion | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

Gentlemen Don't Wait. Biographer West (the wife of British Historian-Diplomat Harold Nicolson) has skillfully woven Mademoiselle's figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady Was a Bourbon | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Countered Prudential President Carrol M. Shanks (TIME, March 18, 1957) last week: "The traditional approach to a retirement program has become inadequate and must be supplemented by some new economic weapon that will allow a retiring citizen to share in the economic growth of the country, and at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Hedge Against Inflation | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Then, in an ill-advised burst of courtesy, the Technicians sent Atkinson to the tubs and called on "Shanks Shenefield to retire the Crimeds in the ninth and protect their 2-0 lead.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Softball Team Downs WHRB, 23-2; Shenefield Battered | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Amiable Conceit. Not many years ago, most chickens sold in markets were either worn-out hens, roosters, or scrawny cockerels. Now most market chickens are grown only for eating, the result of a genetics race between supermarkets and specialty stores to provide the best eating bird. The meat-type chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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