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Every storefront but one, that is. It was the Uhler-Phillips department store, and, as William Allen White wrote years later, "when the reporters asked about it, they heard one of those stories about a primrose detour from Main Street." According to the gossip, Nominee Harding, long since married to a domineering, unattractive woman, had been treading the primrose path with Mrs. Carrie Phillips, wife of one of the owners of the store. She was a tall, willowy redhead, the best-looking woman in town, and about a dozen years Harding's junior-but the less said about...
...annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week at Berkeley, a dramatic circumstance set the stage for an emphatic speech. Retiring president of the A.A.A.S. is Edward Uhler Condon, former chief of the National Bureau of Standards : for years he has been attacked as "a security risk," and last October his clearance was canceled by Navy Secretary Charles Thomas. Incoming President Warren Weaver is director of the Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has been attacked as part of a "subversive conspiracy" by Congressman Carroll Recce's investigating committee (TIME...
...promising signs that at appropriately high levels in our government a concern now exists to improve the whole loyalty-security-secrecy setup ... If so, then there is a poetic appropriateness to this occasion. It is my very great pleasure, and my special honor, to present to you Edward Uhler Condon, the retiring president." As crew-cut Dr. Condon got to his feet, the normally undemonstrative scientists cheered for three minutes...
...young team of Baltimore eye specialists, Dr. William Councilman Owens and his wife, Dr. Ella Uhler Owens, decided to begin at the beginning. In 1945 they started to study every baby weighing 4½ pounds or less born at Johns Hopkins Hospital or taken to its nursery. They observed 214 in two years. No baby had R.L.F. at birth, but five developed...
Extremely happy to see your item about the Sad Sacks. I have spent some time around mental hospitals and prisons where I "accidentally" had access to files of psychiatric diagnosis. Uhler's note on the "Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase" would be a kind way to state the chaotic, uncritical "diagnosis" of psychiatrists in general...