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One Sunday afternoon, the day when TV networks pay commerce's homage to culture, CBS casually dropped a small token into its schedule: a show that offered nothing to the eye but four people talking, nothing to the ear but talk of how to use the English language properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Wide-Awake Sleeper | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

From their first drives, the young pros buckled down confidently to the high-pressure match play, a hole-by-hole, pair-by-pair elimination contest in which the player who takes the most holes wins the round. Ohioan Finsterwald. playing a cool game in 93° heat, won-by two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Young-Timers | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Fretwell accepted, then started to worry. What would be controversial, yet might appeal to the working-class parish? Fretwell decided against tricky techniques and went to work. He had less than five months to do the paintings, but he finished them in time. "By Jove!" Lane gasped when he saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Holy Family in Modern Dress | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Fields and Friedman interested British Chemist John Milsted, who wangled some time on the Stockholm cyclotron, the only one in operation capable of projecting a sufficiently intense beam of carbon ions. Milsted also undertook the tricky job of making curium into a thin film, and sandwiching it between aluminum foil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists, Run! | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

When Miss W., 21, made a donation at the North London Blood Transfusion Centre, the typing of her blood proved tricky: it turned out to be 99% type O, 1% type A. Her twin brother showed 86% type A, 14% type O.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Human Chimeras | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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