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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swank Lundsberg boarding school began to mock him as a runt (he is now 5 ft. 7 in.). Nycop was so embittered by the attacks that he rebelled against his convention-bound background, to become a news-and-be-damned reporter. In 1938 he was tapped by Bonnier to start the LiFE-like picture weekly Ssee, soon showed an executive's firm hand for organization, an editor's sure touch for pictures and pithy sentences...
...Window. For Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint...
...cursed a fig tree, and in a matter of hours, says the Gospel of Mark (11:20), it was "dried up from the roots." The Rev. Franklin Loehr and his Religious Research Foundation in Los Angeles do not claim such dramatic results, but they are off to a flying start, as reported in a new book (Doubleday; $3.50) titled The Power of Prayer on Plants...
...Start at the Bottom. Though they have been in business 26 years, it is only in the past several years that Unterberg, Towbin has won star billing. Manhattan-born Dutch Unterberg, 57, studied banking in Europe, started a one-man, over-the-counter firm in 1932, after the brokerage firm he was with dissolved. Brooklyn-born Partner Towbin, 48, went to Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Business School, got a job with Unterberg at $11 a week...
...Cavaliers sang their jaunty When the King Enjoys His Own Again. But from start to finish, "the Parliamentarians encouraged a solemn godliness" that was best expressed by the Roundhead who said: "Is any merry? Let him sing psalms." The exhortation made sense to London's Protestant merchants, who saw in every Cavalier excess the worldly hand of the Papal archfiend. It found the same response in all who refused to allow Royalist glamour to blind their eyes to the King's infinite capacity for treachery, deceit and absolutism. The Roundheads' chosen poet, John Milton, sang them...