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...play Sheridan Whiteside, it would have been complete lunacy for the HDC to attempt a production of this play. No matter how many productions of this perennial favorite you may have seen, when Woolley emits his first line, you know that the right man is in the wheelchair...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

Before the South Carolina House of Representatives last week was a $60 million bonus bill for veterans. Representative Julian B. Dusenbury of Florence, an ex-Marine captain whose legs were crippled by sniper bullets on Okinawa, asked for the floor. He rolled his wheelchair to the microphone. Said Dusenbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Favors, Please | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Yale University had never had a guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always the Etc.? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...whole world adopted general semantics, treating each fact freshly without preconceived notions, Korzybski thinks i would be sane at last. Nowadays, at his Institute of General Semantics in Lakeville, Conn., he still whisks about in his wheelchair, hammering away at his subject with all the fire left in him. The world is not always with him-in fact, very littl of it is. "[We] still believe ... in the poisonous dogma that 'in the beginning was the word,'" complains the count "Infantilism is rampant . . . Pooh!" On that point, Korzybski is willing to generalize, without date, and without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always the Etc.? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...keep at his writing, Porter had his piano raised on wooden blocks so that he could sit at it in a wheelchair. Then he was on crutches for years. He can get around now for short stretches without a cane, though he usually carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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