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...sleek new 12,800-ton Russian cruiser Sverdlov* appeared off the Isle of Wight last week, bound for the coronation naval review. A British pilot went aboard, but Captain Olimpey Rudakov had no need for him. Silent on the bridge, his chest diagonally festooned with medals, Captain Rudakov manipulated a series of levers behind him to convey his orders to the engine room and the helmsman. At the correct spot, the correct time, he dropped anchor. Simultaneously, with a flick of another switch, he set off a 21-gun salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Two-Way Scrutiny | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...foretelling such catastrophes, said Dr. Julian Johnson of Philadelphia's University Hospital, every operating theater should have emergency equipment; oxygen, an electric "defibrillator" to shock the heart back into action (TIME, Feb. n, 1952), and the right surgical instruments for opening the patient's chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Affairs of the Heart | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Reilly, whose car went out of control and hit a tree about 11:30 near Brighton, was suffering from a serious chest wound, face fractures, fractured skull, and broken arm, leg, and shoulder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reilly Given Even Survival Chance After Car Wreek | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Forget Me Not. In Waterloo, Iowa, James J. Cunningham accused his former wife, Donna Maxine Hull, of doing $500 worth of damage to his home by carving her name on two tables, a radio, a piano, a buffet, a bedroom chest, a refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...start in business running a carnival wheel of fortune and is now a leading citizen of Nevada. Every year Smith hands out $90,000 or more in scholarships to deserving high-school seniors, another $100.000 or so to such organizations as the Boy Scouts and Community Chest. The Reno Day Home, a nursery run by Catholic sisters, is a Smith philanthropy; the local Methodist Church paid off its mortgage with $5,000 from Smith; Mormons and members of the Church of the Nazarene have also benefited from his bounty. The source of Smith's largess: gambling. As head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMBLING: How to Win a Buck | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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