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...Radish-Red Admiral. Wilson called in a whole task force of top Pentagon personnel for a blistering, table-thumping session which started with midday lunch and ended after 6 p.m. Frequently during the afternoon. Wilson tapped with thumb and forefinger on a memorandum written by Parks and Cutter which, like the U.P. story, described the Nautilus as a "test vehicle." But a radish-red Admiral Parks stoutly denied that he had leaked the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Full Speed Astern | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Midget Mender. A tiny hand loom for darning socks was put on sale by Selectric Products Co., Lynwood; Calif. Called the "Darn Easy," it consists of a small slide with hooks on its underside, is shuttled back & forth with finger and thumb. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Harlow himself talked only after the police accused him of murdering for gain. Nothing, he announced indignantly, could have been further from the truth-he had killed his mother simply because he hated her and killed his father because he was under Mrs. Fraden's thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Champagne & Cyanide | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...been 16 more operations, many of them of surpassing delicacy, to graft tendons from the foot to the hand and connect them with muscles in the boy's forearm. One of the most crucial, done early this year, was a tendon transfer to give Terry an apposable left thumb. It worked. Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand. British style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Toes to Fingers | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...about the floor, kicked in the legs and back and almost lifted from the floor by his hair and ears. Once in an effort to open his clasped hands five guards pinned him to his cell wall, hit him repeatedly in the body and forced open his fingers and thumb one by one, whereupon he struck them back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Story of Blood | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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