Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Treasure-Trove. Under the law, Mrs. Morris had a clear obligation to report her son's haul. And it was far from clear last week that the Morrises will be allowed to keep the cash. The "finders keepers, losers weepers" rule of thumb dates back to a celebrated case in 1722 when a British court held that a chimney sweep could keep a jewel he had found in a sooty flue. But over the years, specific exceptions to the old saying have been spelled out in an effort to clarify conflicts over accidentally discovered loot. Though practices vary widely...
Bowler's Thumb. Internist Berry's handbook is an up-to-date endorsement of old-fashioned observation. When a patient has hands with swollen-tipped, "clubbed" fingers, and if there is also reddish-brown coloration to the skin at the base of the nails, says Dr. Berry, the man is suffering from cyanotic heart disease. "Blue babies" (with Fallot's tetralogy) develop similar signs, but when surgery has sealed the leak between the right and left sides of the heart, the clubbing and the discoloration dramatically disappear. If the pigmentation is not present, the spatulate fingers...
...Berry's chapters would have delighted Sherlock Holmes, with illustrations of such occupational trademarks as cellist's callus (on the tip of the left pinkie) and bowler's thumb (with a thickened joint). But one anomaly, known among gypsy fortune tellers as "murderer's thumb," indicates nothing: a wide, short thumb and nail are found as often on professional golfers as on stranglers...
Round Five may always remain a questionmark. An apparently sightless Clay, who has alternately claimed that he was gouged by the champion's thumb and blinded by liniment on Sonny's gloves, managed to hold off the lumbering Liston with no more protection than a stiff left arm. Liston landed ponderous hooks to Clay's body and head but their lack of visible effect made the spectators wonder for the first time whether there was indeed something wrong with the champ. Clay seemed to recover his sight late in the round, but the round was Liston...
...working executive whose In basket never seems to be empty, one practical rule of thumb is that anything mailed to him free is probably not worth reading. But there is one giveaway magazine that has sought, with mild success, to be an exception. In seven years, News Front, which calls itself "management's news magazine," has at least gained entree to some of the most influential In baskets in the U.S. Among its 92,000 nonpaying recipients are the presidents and key officers of the country's 7,500 largest companies, the Governors of all 50 states...