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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...American Red Cross, living on his Leesburg, Va. estate. The President asked the general if he would take the job. Marshall asked his wife what she thought of his becoming Secretary of Defense. Mrs. Marshall did not mind a bit; it was just the general's sort of thing, she thought. Quite happily, George Marshall accepted...
...dispatch. He impounded the 852 negatives, locked them up and suspended all photographing. But he was not in time to silence the howls. Newspapers picked up the story, splashed it into headlines (NUDE POSING OF COEDS RISES STORM . . .). To a good many readers, the whole affair sounded like some sort of campus peep show...
...their physiques.* Endomorphs are likely to be amiable and slow; mesomorphs, vigorous and aggressive; ectomorphs, inhibited and cautious. Further, he has found his types particularly susceptible to certain diseases, e.g., mesomorphs to acute appendicitis. Usually, says Sheldon, a person's physique can help indicate what sort of reaction he will have under stress, what sort of diet he needs, what sort of work he will excel...
...bleak, green-walled hall of California's San Quentin Prison one day last week, an odd sort of jury-two murderers, one sex offender, assorted thieves and forgers-solemnly took their places at a table before an audience of fellow convicts. The case before them was an old one: Athens v. Socrates. The evidence: Plato's Apology, in which Socrates defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth of the city, and the Crito, in which the old prisoner refuses a chance to escape...
...back in 1915, did not mean that Dr. Dyer was giving up medicine. Soon he went to work for the U.S. Public Health Service. Last week, nearing 64 and retirement, ruddy, white-pompa-doured Rolla Dyer looked back on a career which mirrored the growth of PHS from a sort of emergency field service to a vast organization with elaborate research facilities in its National Institutes of Health. And the lushest, most fruitful growth of the Institutes (to a $50-million-a-year enterprise) had been in the last eight years under Dr. Dyer's directorship...