Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wise to give children their first shots in August and September, months that mark the height of the polio season in virtually all the U.S.? This question involves a cruel choice: vaccine given in August may give life-saving protection against polio in September. But any injection at that time may provoke a paralytic reaction from virus already smoldering in the system, which might otherwise have done no harm. As of last week, most Government experts seemed inclined to go ahead anyway, but many a doctor was doubtful. Newark and other New Jersey cities postponed vaccinations...
WHILE Schoolteacher Aileen Holtje in Udall, Kan. worried about the weather and what dress to wear to her wedding shower (see Big Twister in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tornado-wise Murray Gart of the Wichita Eagle shared her uneasiness. Gart, 30, a displaced Bostonian who is news editor of the Eagle, and TIME'S Wichita correspondent, knew it was impossible to outguess nature when the tails of twisters flap in the sky like shreds of a tattered flag. He could only wait...
...enough points to feel justified in setting down "Honest" Bill Daly, the manager who collaborated with the IBC in giving Vince Martinez a rough deal. Last week Helfand suspended his hearings and sailed for Europe. From Jacobs Beach to The Bronx, he left behind a mob of worried wise guys, convinced that this boxing commissioner meant business. They would have to mend their ways - at least for a while - or hang up their gloves. But there was no hope for any real change. By the nature of things, professional boxing was still the racket in which it is necessary...
Only in her longest story, The Displaced Person, does Ferocious Flannery weaken her wallop by groping about for a symbolic second-story meaning - in this case, something about salvation. But despite such arty fumbling, which also marred Author O'Connor's novel Wise Blood (TIME, June 9, 1952), this is still a power ful and moving tale of an innocent Pole who stumbles against the South's color bar. Whatever her uncertainties in the longer form, Flannery O'Connor packs a punch in her short stories that for sheer sardonic brutality occasionally recalls the early Graham...
Those appointed were: John S. Chatfield of Eliot House and Madeira, Ohio; Francis H. Duehay of Adams House and Cambridge; Warren M. Little of Eliot House and Brookline; and David S. Wise of Winthrop House and Cambridge...