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...American Skier Katy Rodolph, a point winner at Oslo in 1952, crashed into a tree in a practice meet, broke a vertebra in her neck and was lost to her team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ill-Omened Olympics | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Last week readers of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin wondered whether that Spartan boy was just a freak, after all-a child who could not feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates off stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spartans | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Last week, a successful attempt was made to transmit a colored picture. It involved merely another application of the same device. A colored picture of Rodolph Valentino, in M. Beaucaire, was photographed three times, once with a blue screen to take the blues, once with a yellow screen to take the yellows, once with a red screen to take the reds. These photographs were then transmitted separately. The only difference of method was that the lines of each picture were at a different angle across the plate, so that when they were reproduced they would blend instead of blur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Color Telephony | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...Rodolph Valentino (real name Rodolfo Guglielmo) : "Day Dreams, a volume of poems and philosophy written by me, made its appearance in bright melon-colored binding. In one poem, called You, I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Jan. 21, 1924 | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

Meditate upon heroes. The day is easily recalled when Francis X. Bushman was the brightest star of evening. He was the squarejawed, peg-top hero who resembled models of elegance of the Sears-Roebuck Co. Nowadays it is Rodolph Valentino, his fame somewhat muddied of late, but still Rodolph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Movies | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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