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...hinged cardboard box. Inside, recipients of this Christmas package will find two bestsellers: a King James Bible in imitation leather, zippered open and shut with a plastic ball containing a mustard seed;* a red and gold imitation leather copy of The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Price of this Treasury of Faith: $6.95. "There is no substitute for the Bible," writes Dr. Peale on the box, but it is clear which book he expects people to read first. "I hope that readers will be encouraged," he adds, "to turn to the Bible itself...
...crew is handpicked. Assisting Draper, who doubles as presidential Air Force aide, are Majors William W. Thomas, the copilot, and Vincent Puglisi, the navigator. The five enlisted crewmen, all master sergeants, are graduates of Lockheed's factory school in Burbank, Calif. Every three months the pilots go through a rigid flight test under the gimlet eyes of top Air Force inspectors. Before each flight they plan how to buckle on Ike's parachute within 30 seconds. Before the President takes a trip, they may fly thousands of miles from Washington merely to practice instrument landings at his destination...
...Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell University Medical College had a rather harrowing experience with his Nobel Prize. A fortnight ago, the Associated Press reported from Sweden that he had won the medicine prize (TIME, Oct. 31). The report was promptly corrected, but not before Dr. du Vigneaud had heard it and rejoiced prematurely. When the news came last week that he had won the chemistry prize instead, the executive editor of the Associated Press, Alan J. Gould himself, called Dr. du Vigneaud to assure him that this was the real McCoy. Then Dr. du Vigneaud's colleagues dressed themselves...
...seven: Carl Ferdinand Cori (carbohydrate metabolism), Selman Waksman (streptomycin), Max Theiler (yellow fever), Edward Kendall and Philip Hench (cortisone), John F. Enders (virus propagation), Biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud (see SCIENCE...
...early September 1949, few people in New York City could have looked forward to the future more eagerly than 21-year-old Joan Dunn. A graduate of The Bronx's College of Mount St. Vincent, she was beginning her career as a teacher of English, and as she walked toward the Brooklyn high school to which she had been assigned, she felt an "excitement in the air, that particular sharp-pencil, clean-copybook, brand-new-eraser crackle in the ether that made me walk a little faster...