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...serious anemia and of extreme nervous fatigue. Feeling better after two months in the U.S., she went back to Rome to face the full work load. In a short time, all the symptoms reappeared and some new and frightening ones developed. Her fingernails became brittle, broke at a slight tap. She began to lose blonde hair by the brushful. Her teeth were noticeably loosening. Worst of all for a diplomat, she had become irritable. She was forced to spend more and more time abed, and she always felt the worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Arsenic for the Ambassador | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...20th century's beneficiaries of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in "Virtue, Liberty and Independence" might even share this sentiment. A sip of their chlorine-loaded tap water and they understand why Fields shunned the liquid all his life; a trip downtown and they know why he hated the city's narrow, crosshatched streets. A baseball park should be a place to get away from all this, but these days even a trip to Connie Mack Stadium is seldom a pleasure. The Philadelphia Phillies, now the only major-league team in town, are stumbling through their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Whole Story of Pitching | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...Night at the Apollo (Vanguard). Harlem's famed vaudeville theater in a rowdy session with Count Basic's band, a couple of tap dancers, some comedy and a glimpse of the famed amateur show that gave Ella Fitzgerald her start. The recorded show uncovers its own discovery, a bouncy blues singer named Doreen Vaughan. The audience goes wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

John Getch laid down a perfect squeeze bunt to bring home the run that beat Columbia, 4 to 3, in the last of the ninth. But his tap, which went for an infield hit, came only a few pitches after another bunt call had almost quenched the Crimson's rally...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Nine Wins Twice As Tennis Team Splits | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...elegant 35 on the first nine brought Burke within reach, and on the 18th green, a tricky, downhill putt lay between him and a one-under-par 71. Putting with a crisp tap, as if he were driving a tack into the ball, Burke sank the all-important shot for a 72-hole total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master of the Masters | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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