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Baseball to Tumors. Dr. Cushing's extraordinary career is a record of one of the most single-minded men in the history of medicine. At Yale young Harvey Cushing played right field on the baseball team, and became a first-rate gymnast. Following family tradition (three generations), he decided to become a doctor, went through Harvard Medical School. Afterwards he went to Johns Hopkins Hospital and studied abroad. In Switzerland he was inspired by great Surgeon Theodor Kocher to enter the field of neurology. His inspiration burned with icy clarity...
...prim, capable wife of a Lutheran schoolman in the little Swedish-American town of Lindsborg, Kans. (pop. 2,004). Alma Swensson loved Handel's oratorio, The Messiah, decided that her Swedish neighbors should hear it too. So she sent for the music, gathered a chorus of young people from the surrounding towns and farms, rehearsed them and let the welkin ring. That...
...Last week John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who is not generally considered a magician so far as programs are concerned, pulled an exciting Easter rabbit out of his hat. Assisted by the young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini...
...most cases," says she, "the ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
Under the direction of a young SEC lawyer named Peter H. ("Handyman") Nehemkis Jr., surveys will be made in 561 towns and cities. SEC itself will concentrate on ten "representative" cities.* Already well under way, the job is to be finished by June 1. Said Jerome Frank: "We want to drench ourselves in facts." A sample question small businessmen will be asked: What per cent of your inventories have you borrowed against...