Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medicine's big mysteries is the bodily process that translates disease into death. One man who has been stubbornly looking for an answer is 43-year-old Dr. Melvin H. Knisely, a gaunt, tall (6 ft. 3) physiologist at the University of Chicago. For 17 years, Dr. Knisely and a squad of co-workers at Chicago and the University of Tennessee have been bending over their microscopes, laboriously studying the circulation of the blood. Last fortnight, Science published their epochal findings...
...Paul R. Hawley, tubby medical chief of the Veterans' Administration, loves to tell tall tales (he files his favorites in a little black book, which he carries around with him). An ardent student of military history, he also likes to debunk such heroes as General Custer (TIME, Aug. 18), and to refight old battles (once, toting an armload of Civil War books, he visited Gettysburg and reconstructed the battle so vividly that his account is now the official one taught at the Army War College...
...starting Bulldog line will outweigh the visitors by about 199 pounds to 196, with each man standing six feet tall or more. The backfield is a dozen pounds heavier than the Crimson and generally recognized to be Yale's real source of strength...
...Lamar, that tall Southern gentleman who exhorts his charges with an intense, pleasant voice blending a Dixie drawl and Bostonian, it is that kind of exhibition that makes his task worthwhile. "It's a tremendous thrill to see the boys you've coached as Freshmen make good," he beams. An unusually high percentage of Lamar-coached footballers have received letters in their sophomore year...
...premiere of An Ideal Husband, this time a movie starring Paulette Goddard and Hugh Williams. With this hoary pressagent's trick, Sir Alexander Korda helped beat the drums for his return to moviemaking-and the showing this week of the first movie in three years bearing his name. Tall, silver-haired, and at 54 none the worse for 29 hectic years in the international movie business, Korda was making a comeback from his second eclipse as a major cinemaker...