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Died. Henry Baker, 54, slight, mild-mannered onetime dental technician and professional burglar whose 26-year career was capped in January 1950, when he and ten teammates smoothly robbed the Brink's armored car service office in Boston's old North End of $2,775,395 for the largest haul in U.S. history, went to jail for life with seven others in 1956; of bronchial pneumonia; in a Norfolk (Mass.) prison hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 24, 1961 | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Medical Center. Anesthesiologist Leonard Fabian opened her mouth, sprayed a local anesthetic on her throat, inserted an "airway tube" to ensure unobstructed breathing. Under the watchful eye of Surgeon James Hardy, Dr. Fabian attached a tiny electrode to each of the woman's temples. At his signal, a technician turned a control on the face of a small box from which thin wires trailed out to the electrodes. Within 60 seconds the woman was sound asleep, and the operation began-first ever performed in the U.S. under electrical anesthesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shocked to Sleep | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

Like all top oilmen, Rathbone must be a combination of secretary of state, technician, international socialite and world economist. He has to worry about everything from the dumping of cheap Russian oil on world markets ("aimed at creating dissension and undermining the economies of free nations") to the lightning-quick onslaught of national revolutions (he got out of Iraq and Lebanon just before fighting broke out in each place). He must be ready to chat with the Duke of Edinburgh about how to bring up children, which he did recently at the dedication of a British plant, or sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Humble Man | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

John I. Donovan '57 said that the HSA had contacted him to help set up the agency. The original plan, he claimed, was that the HSA would finance an "extensive darkroom"--costing up to $5,000 and staffed with a full-time professional laboratory technician. To make such a project feasible, Donovan declared, the agency would contract for photographs of weddings, candid shots, and portraits...

Author: By Rudolf V. Ganz jr., | Title: Local Businessmen Attack Proposed Student Agency, Charge Unfair Competition | 1/19/1961 | See Source »

Hear the Animals Sing (Columbia). There was this little boy and he had a magic stick and when he rubbed cows, cats, dogs and lambs with his stick, these animals (real sound effects) began to sing (real tape technician) songs like The Farmer in the Dell and all like that. Three to-sixes go positively daft over it, but Papa and Mama need magical first aid while the cowcophony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kidiscography, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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