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...others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth a tug on his heavy tackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Care Everywhere | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...meet it, and stitched them together. At the lower end, this piece of gut was joined to the stomach. The small bowel was joined to the remainder of the large bowel. Tommy's revamped digestive tract worked fine. His one problem: learning to use a knife, fork and spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Triumphs of Surgery | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

When Dr. Tadakatsu Tazaki, fired with ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From a Japanese Garden | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Wait, don't forget dessert! Ice cream soup with apple-pie. Good use for the soup spoon...

Author: By Anne Schneider, | Title: One Man's Meat | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

Your article on the Philippines and Mr. Garcia [April 21] is a gross understatement. Things are twice as bad as you relate. Political graft, moral corruption, and a general desire to be spoon-fed is the actual situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

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