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Testified famed Cardiologist Paul Dudley White: "Massachusetts has become a laughingstock because of its resistance to the removal of this handicap which threatens to stifle further advance in medicine and surgery.'' Nobelman John F. Enders spoke up for the bill. State Senator Philip G. ("Bow-wow") Bowker, 57, of Brookline declaimed: "It's a disgrace to tie the hands of medical researchers. I have two incurable diseases† in my body, but they are controlled because of animal experimentation. If it were not for that, I would be six feet underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Animals to the Rescue | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...stretched contentedly in the soft office chair, sighed: "I just can't tell you how much less tired I've been feeling at the end of each working day." As for the patients, one psychiatrist said: "I'd summarize patient reaction as a kind of 'Wow!'" Another found a patient hesitant about "speaking terrible thoughts amid all this beauty," but another patient looked around, exclaimed: "There's something optimistic here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Womb with a View | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Divorced. By Sheilah Graham, aging (fiftyish) blonde Hollywood gossipist, onetime London chorus girl and great and good friend of the late Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wojciechowicz Stanley ("Bow Wow") Wojtkiewicz, 40, sometime athletic director; after four years of marriage, one of separation, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

Manhattan Composer Henry Brant is flute-prone. When he spots a vintage model he has never seen before, his eyes glitter with excitement and he examines the old vented tube with the fervor of a doctor hunting a symptom. "Wow," he will say in wonderment. "Look at that plumbing!" Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade. One of Composer Brant's finest works is a fond flute dream called Angels and Devils, a concerto for flute and flute orchestra. Now it is on records, soloed by Frederick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...week's end, the orchestra went on to wow Moscow with the same program. Joining in the frenzy of enthusiasm were such musical greats as Violinist David Oistrakh, Composers Dmitry Shostakovich. Dmitry Kabalevsky and Aram Khachaturian. Said Khachaturian: "Marvelous, marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston in Russia | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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