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...Bone and Gristle. Fifty-year-old George is childless, disinclined to marry again. Once he was reported engaged to the Countess of Craven. The Countess' mother denied the rumor, but added: "I may state, however, that my daughter and the King of Greece have been close friends for about 15 years." A year before that, while Edward VIII was cruising in the Adriatic, King George invited him to dine with him-"alone." Cousin Edward arrived with Mrs. Simpson. A few days later Edward invited Cousin George to dine with him alone. George arrived with his friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Land of Invasion | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...Greece had, for better or worse, stepped out of her comic-opera role. Greece was full in the path of huge events. In a debate at the Oxford Union during his exile George once said: "Instinctively I distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone and gristle." This week the men of bone were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Land of Invasion | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Services and Cures. Each patient arriving at Memorial is routed into one of eleven highly specialized departments, each with its own staff. Largest number find their way into the Head & Neck Service, next largest go into the Breast Service. Others: Gynecological (womb cancers, etc.), Gastric (stomach), Genitourinary, Bone and Medical (the leukemias and lymphatic cancers). Best cure records (between 60 and 70%) run in lip, skin, womb and breast cancers. Worst (under 10%) are in prostate gland and the leukemias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Hospital | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...raise at least $1,500,000 towards this deficit, over and above the $17,000,000 U. S. Protestants annually give to foreign missions. With this $1,500,000 they hope to keep Europe's missions open for a year, although budgets must be slashed to the bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orphaned Missions | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...short life trying to experience everything in the world with all five senses at once, and to communicate the experience in a series of verbal landslides. Sometimes they piled up in masses of magnificent rhetoric: "And we? Made of our father's earth, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh-born like our father here to live and strive, here to win through or be defeated-here, like all the other men who went before us, not too nice or dainty for the uses of this earth-here to live, to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burning, Burning, Burning | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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