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...Chicago last week the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology got a pointer from Temple University Psychiatrist O. Spurgeon English: look for emotional troubles in a patient with eczema. "He cannot weep but his skin weeps for him. Eczema patients are usually depressed, and long for love, but they can't stand love when they get it." Love, English summarized, "is an itch one can't scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Down in the Mouth | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Shining Faces | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...made it clear what boundaries he would want. Going to a map on the wall, he traced the present Israeli lines in the Negeb. The pointer he used was a rifle cartridge stamped with the date 1948 and two tiny Stars of David. "Our own manufacture," he said proudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Heavy Burden | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...first period and Roger Pugh added the extra point on a buck to give the Mastodons a 7-0 bulge. Although Dudley went over in the second quarter, the touchdown was called back because of an offside penalty. Then, in the final canto, the winners produced their second six-pointer when Jim Rossiter went off tackle from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Stop Puritan Team As Eliot Wins | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...Middle" took over first place, with a decisive 30 to 0 win over Wigglesworth E--K. Back Tom Rogers starred for the victors by connecting three touchdown passes, two to Murphy and one to Lovely. Murphy also scored again on a pass from Smith, while Lovely heaved a six-pointer to Anderson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straus, Hollis Tie For First Place In Yard Football | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

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