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...been a wonderful, strenuous summer, and 13-year-old Birdsall Sweet was just going into the last half of the eighth grade in Beacon, N.Y. But in September, husky, athletic Birdsall suddenly fell ill. After five days he was admitted to a hospital in Poughkeepsie. Like many another youngster in the epidemic year of 1931, Birdsall Sweet had polio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In an Iron Lung | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...could trace his experience all the way back to his Yakima, Wash, boyhood. "Peanuts" Douglas took to climbing the sagebrush-covered foothills after a childhood attack of infantile paralysis left him a puny, spindly-legged weakling. In a few years the boy whose physique had barred him from strenuous sports was spending long weeks wandering over the sheer Cascades, sometimes toting a pack 40 miles in a single day. He had found his legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Mountains Are Good For | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...schedule this year is a bit loss strenuous than last year's pace of 17 matches. Thirteen i nall will be played and this number includes the Eastern Intercollegiates around the middle of May. Harvard will be host for this...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/30/1950 | See Source »

Humphrey Bogart is currently chasing across the Metropolitan screen at a speed substantially better than that of sound; unfortunately the rest of the cast has trouble keeping up this strenuous pace. Hence "Chain Lightning" is only an average motion picture...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/10/1950 | See Source »

Although her last singing of the Marschallin at the Metropolitan in 1945 brought her a 20-minute ovation, she decided soon afterward that it was time to "let go." Two years ago she resolved to give up opera and operatic arias completely, sing only less strenuous lieder. She limited her concert tours to two months a year, spent the remaining ten months at her California home. When she wasn't singing, she painted watercolors, fired ceramics of her own design in her home kiln, worked on her fifth book, Of Heaven, Hell and Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: More! | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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