Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything is reduced to the very idea of economy," observes Bronstein. "One erect triangle for the architecture of the figure ... a beautiful single hand . . . and one truth of the face-the skull. Everything is rigid, motionless, everything, save the living eyes...
...damage; his hands and face became rough and scaly. Soon warty growths appeared. But Dr. Brown kept on with his dangerous work, testing the value of X rays in the study of kidney stones, branching out to see what they could tell about disorders at the base of the skull. In France in World War I, he took X rays for operations to be performed by the late great Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. Dr. Brown worked day & night with virtually unshielded field equipment, ignoring the invisible peril...
Dishes & Stymies. His G.O.P. opponent, also a wealthy amateur in national politics, matched him trick for trick. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman, tall, ruggedly handsome Prescott Bush had 15-minute TV spots, five-minute TV spots, and one-minute TV spots. A Yaleman (Skull & Bones), director of more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers...
...flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with a fractured skull...
...newspapers. He broke in on the Washington Post. For the last 2½ years, he has been a reporter and then a music and drama critic for the Winston-Salem, N.C. Journal. Six months ago, Publisher Ethridge decided that his son ought to "cram as much experience into his skull" as it would hold. He persuaded Viscount Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, to try an experiment in lend-lease. In return for Rothermere's hiring Mark Jr. on a temporary basis, Publisher Ethridge agreed to hire a Daily Mailman. As of last week, Lord Rothermere...