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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word from the Moon. The Russians seemed eager to be cooperative and, except when military matters were touched on, surprisingly willing to describe Soviet discoveries in space rocketry. At a Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, Academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov told in precise scientific terms how Lunik III was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Russians on Tour | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Brought up near the Amsterdam docks, Appel worked as a youth in his father's : barber shop, early decided against so niggling and polite a trade. Painting was his only care, and to pursue it, he lived in hunger and rags, moving often and taking to the road for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Appel | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

At 72, Brundage is increasingly concerned over the future of his collection, has offered it to San Francisco's M. H. de Young Museum. Last week city officials were debating the conditions of the gift: 1) a $3,000.000 addition to the museum, in the form of an Oriental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: TREASURE FROM THE ORIENT | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Fantastic Animal (overleaf) is one of about 100 Luristan bronzes in Brundage's collection; he calls it the finest he has ever seen. The mysterious horsemen of Luristan (mountainous western Iran) flourished a thousand and more years before the time of Christ, left no ruins of cities but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: TREASURE FROM THE ORIENT | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Dr. McDowell explained the risks. Jane Crawford and her farmer husband Thomas were willing. So she set out on horseback, the tumor resting on the saddle pommel, from Greensburg to Danville, Ky. The 60-mile journey lasted "a few days"-Dr. McDowell does not record just how many. Then, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery & Psalms | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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