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...help him decide whether a patient is really nasally desperate, Dr. Daley makes photographs from several angles, draws mysterious lines on the pictures and compares them with similar lines drawn on a sketch of an ideal face. Then he plans a compromise-somewhere between the patient's original nose and the ideal. Finally he tries it out on a wax cast. In the end, a patient who started with a broad, concave, bulbous-tipped nose will turn into no beauty: he will merely get a nose that is a little less broad, a little less concave, a little less...
Halder's thumbnail sketch of Hitler: "The man was a thorough liar, absolutely untrustworthy and completely allergic to reasoning when it was a question of criticizing his pet ideas. His military capabilities were those of a mediocre corporal...
...wish I had more space to sketch the special background of war which has seasoned each of our correspondents. Every one of these men knows that covering the news for TIME does not mean just duplicating the headline reports we get from our Associated Press wires...
...changes considerably as he grows up. But Illinois X-ray studies showed that while an infant's head bones and bumps grow bigger, their relative proportions remain virtually unchanged throughout life. Thus, from an X-ray photograph of a newborn infant's head, it is possible to sketch approximately how he will look as an adult...
Parodies of TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but we prefer nouns that make adjectives unnecessary...