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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first year as Harvard's president (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), through Harvard's tercentenary (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936), through postwar revamping of Harvard's curriculum (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946), Conant has been on TIME'S cover three times before. This is his fourth appearance-a rare record for a nonpolitical personage. Even this appearance goes back to his Harvard days. For Conant's fascination with public schools began in 1933, when he had to decide "whether to drown a kitten," meaning Harvard's ailing Graduate School of Education. Conant fed it instead and raised...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn and his big Democratic majority to override the President's veto of the public-works appropriation bill, a $1.2 billion barrel full of rivers-and-harbors projects and other fat goodies dear to politicians of both parties. Rayburn whipped all but six Democrats into a rare moment of unity, but failed by one vote to override. Two days later, still seething over the defeat of their House colleagues, Senate Democrats sharply attacked when an Eisenhower courier flew back from Europe with a veto for the second fat housing bill they have passed this year. Exploiting...
...hearts by exercise if they are healthy to begin with. Dr. Joseph B. Wolffe of Valley Forge Hospital said that the muscles in a normal person's limbs will give out, leaving him unable to move, before he can strain the more powerful heart muscle. Some of the rare cases of collapse and sudden death during exercise may be due to exhaustion of blood sugar rather than heart damage.¶ Exercise helps to guard against obvious obesity (a proved life-shortener), said Boston's bicycle-riding Paul Dudley White, 73, himself as lean as a beanpole, and also...
...wrote Edinburgh University's famed Musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey before World War II. and at the time many a music lover would have agreed. The baroque music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries appealed only to a few long-hair devotees, and it was the rare chamber music group that included works of Italian baroque composers...
...Jurgens subtly conveys the unavowed jealousy that flares up within him whenever he catches his students ogling Lola Lola. And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies. Jurgens penetrates rare emotional depths. Crowing like a crazed cock as one raw egg after another is broken over his bald pate, he personifies the soul-destroying humiliation that is the inexorable companion of unbridled desire...