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Mother Goose (Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Arch without being cute, this trio skips through the old rhymes like verbal jump ropes. In gleeful self-amazement, Actor Ritchard triple-tongues Peter Piper's pickled peppers ("I didn't break down, you see"). Hershy Kay's musical punctuation is pert and pertinent, unfailingly delights, never intrudes...
...went to work for the Institute for Government Research, later helped found the Institute of Economics and began a graduate school to train men for public service. In 1927 he merged all three organizations as the Brookings Institution, envisioned it as a supergraduate "capstone to the education al arch of the country." Passionately Objective. Brookings was never quite that under its scholarly first president, Harold G. Moulton. It granted only 74 doctorates before dropping the program in 1936. But its economic research had a profound effect on national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings experts clarified and defined...
...tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...
...Newspapers for Kennedy: the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times, whose arch-conservative publisher, Basil Brewer, was Massachusetts campaign manager for Robert Taft in his 1952 drive for the G.O.P. nomination; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Kennedy offers the brighter hope of being able to evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). ¶ LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded...
...four ascending arteries (two carotid, two vertebral) that carry blood toward the brain from the aorta's arch, just above the heart, are subject to the same types of disease as other major arteries, and they should, insisted Houston's famed surgeon Michael DeBakey (TIME, June 22, 1959), be treated the same way. If the disease is true hardening of the middle layer of the artery walls, surgery can do nothing about it. If the disease is atherosclerosis (not hardening, but clogging with fatty material), affecting only a short stretch of the ascending carotid or vertebral arteries...