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...records fell Saturday night at the annual Ic4-A track meet at Madison Square Garden, but Harvard shared in none of the glory. Competing with a skeleton team, the Crimson tied with Fordham for 17th place with three points in the record field of 46 colleges...
...plant of the Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. in Fort Wayne, Ind. was about as lonesome as a haunted house. Production had virtually stopped, employment was down from 2,500 to a skeleton crew of a few hundred. Because of its heavy losses (TIME, Jan. 24), Farnsworth stock, which had hit a high of 11¾ a year ago, was slipping steadily...
Washington could hardly wait for the trial of Countess Felicia Gizycka's suit to break the will of her mother, Publisher Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald (TIME, Sept. 27). It promised to rattle many a family skeleton. But one afternoon last week just twelve days before the trial date, attorneys for the Countess summoned newsmen. They were handed an announcement of an agreement by all parties to settle out of court...
...workers. Last week, Waltham appealed to the RFC for a $9,000,000 loan. Pressed by Massachusetts Congressmen, RFC loaned $350,000, with a promise of $650,000 more if the banks agreed. This first transfusion was only enough to reopen Waltham for a few weeks-and with a skeleton force. But President Johnson hoped that there would be more forthcoming, and that he could get Waltham ticking again...
...hand, explained Dr. Brailsford, is "the skeleton's calling card." It can be held perfectly steady for X-ray purposes; there is little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...