Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such an assignment would be hard enough for a Harvardman--after all, what would bring back nostalgic memories to thousands of alumni?--but for a non-Harvardman, it would seem impossible. Suchmann has accepted the challenge, however, and within the space of a few short weeks has probably learned more about Harvard than most undergraduates learn in four years...
Besides Repetto, the starting lineup may contain five other seniors playing their last home game for Harvard. The tentative batting order sees junior Tom Bergantino at third, junior Bob Cleary at second, captain John Simourian at first, and senior Bob Hastings batting cleanup and playing short...
...Paralleling a similar British study (TIME, Feb. 11), the findings showed that more than 50% of the TB victims came from homes broken by death, divorce or separation before the patients were 18; the divorce rate among tuberculars was four times the U.S. average. Most TB patients had cut short their education, had a penchant for moving from city to city and changing jobs often-long before they knew that they had the disease. The TB patients also had more than their share of emotional illness: 20-25% had psychoses, and 36% had neuroses...
...victim's body, but "his insides were cooked ... A hole as big as a silver dollar was burned in his small bowel." Dr. McLaughlin has seen other, less severe cases, warns that high-powered radar microwaves (similar to those used in electronic stoves) can do serious damage at short range without proper safeguards by causing "intolerable" rises in tissue temperatures...
Illness and World War II kept Lipatti from touring widely. He studied in Paris fled to Switzerland during the war; by the time postwar Europe began to marvel at him, he was no longer well enough to travel. Although he was short and frail, he had the massively muscled shoulders of a boxer and steel-fingered hands. "Macaroni fingers!" he said contemptuously when sometimes he failed to play with his usual precision. A perfectionist, he preferred not to play Beethoven because he felt he was not yet worthy of the music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti...