Word: leviathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 73, is almost as eager as was Captain Ahab to sink a harpoon into the mightiest leviathan of the deep, but for a different reason: he wants to record its electrocardiogram. Dr. White has logged the ECG of a small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
Today the big, gray cumbersome freshman "Leviathan" barge will vanish from the Charles for another year...
...amiable bear of a man on the ground, Alabama's leviathan-like (6 ft. 8 in., 265 Ibs.) Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom while airborne seemed more like a barefoot boy with cheek. When he goes sailing off into the wild blue in his Cessna 180, Big Jim disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...
...request that the CRIMSON publish this letter in correction of misstatements and distortions of fact in your editorial entitled "Leviathan," published...
...those who object to the small car, my husband is 6 ft. tall, weighs 175 Ibs. and has plenty of room; our two children prefer it to their grandfather's cars (Buick and a Cadillac). A large number of Americans don't want an overinflated Detroit Leviathan-just economical transportation...