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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rotating bodyguards, constantly on hand because Beck is obsessed with the notion that an unknown "they" are trying to kidnap Dave Beck Jr., a walloping 35-year-old 210-pounder. "If you were out here alone," Beck tells his guest, "you'd be pinned back up against the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dave & the Green Stuff | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...Institute of Radio Engineers, 800 expensive exhibits had been carefully set up. But the convention's most popular exhibition-before which engineers daily stood two or three deep-was a makeshift affair; it was a 15-ft. display of hundreds of white cards tacked on a wall beneath the sign "Job Opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Spring Wooing | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Toasts & Hubris. The book is crowded with friends who somehow all sound alike. Novelist John (The Wall) Hersey sets the note when he says ("tightly") by way of farewell: "You make me want to write!" and adds in a letter: "My dear, calm friend! . . . You are noble . . . You manage to make a kind of dance of it." Not all will want to follow the last steps of the dreadful dance, when Lael Tucker's second husband (whom she divorced to marry Wertenbaker) visits the dying man and sitting before the fire says: "You are the best . . . Tell me what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Stoic | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Patrick H. B. Wall, a Conservative member of Parliament, will speak this morning at 11:00 in Room One, Shannon Hall, on the Middle Eastern situation, under the auspices of the Army ROTC Battalion. Wall is a member of the British Foreign Policy Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.P. to Speak | 3/28/1957 | See Source »

Another coronary operation, as practiced by Washington's Hufnagel, involves cutting and tying off both mammary arteries-the chest wall can get along without their blood supply-and thus shunt their contents over into the coronaries. Hufnagel hit on this theory by chance when, during different cardiac operations, mammary arteries were cut accidentally, and patients made better recoveries. Hufnagel has been doing this type of operation for years, is still patiently compiling data on his patients' progress before making claims of its effectiveness. Virtually the same operation, though done in execution of a different theory, attracted wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery's New Frontier | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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