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...intelligent and sensitive frog," was the outgoing, very English son of a regular navy officer. The "very odd and very gifted" Physicist Lindemann was "repressed, suspicious, malevolent." A fanatic Englishman-by-adoption, he was a fierce ascetic who shunned sensual pleasures. Snow recalls him as "an extreme and cranky vegetarian who lived largely on the whites of eggs,† Port Salut cheese and olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bring on the Scientists | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...ambitious and "distinctly rich" Lindemann, said Snow, began "eating his singular vegetarian meals at a good many of the great English houses." He met Churchill, formed a lifelong friendship, even though Churchill soon was out of political favor. Tizard took a different road. After teaching at Oxford, he turned to science-advising at Whitehall, and with his bluff, soldierly manner "fitted into that world from the start." Lindemann was jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bring on the Scientists | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Deeply rooted in old Japan, Ikeda is a vegetarian who takes two hot baths a day and wanders in his rock garden "to clear my head." Back in 1930, he was attacked by a skin disease that doctors pronounced incurable. After five years of suffering, Ikeda listened to his mother's urging and set out on a pilgrimage. Swathed in bandages, he dragged himself painfully around Osaki Island to 88 of Buddhism's holy places. The disease disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: HARD MAN | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...said the label on one bottle. "I was saved. Betty." The plot, however, is mostly concerned with another girl-healthy enough not to require a medicine cabinet-who comes to share Julian's rustic idyl for a while. When he finds her clasped by a lustful vegetarian, he takes to his bed for several days in disgust, but wakes up to find wild flowers thrusting up through the bleak earth of his gloom; there is money in the mail from an American publisher. At book's end he is planning another poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brides of Sometime | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore snorted, in the language of the true eccentric: "Men just can't compete with me. I'm super...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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