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...stood by his friend when Wilde's homosexuality jostled him from society into Reading Gaol. During Oscar's trial, he advised him to escape to France-there was a yacht waiting, he said, with steam up in the Thames. (Shaw suspected the steam yacht was hot air, just as Painter Augustus John thought Harris' Rolls-Royce to be, "like Elijah's chariot, purely mythical.") When Oscar went to prison, Harris defied a savage social blockade to visit the ruined man, offered him ?500. There may have been genuine courage in his conduct, but typically, two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Cads | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...resident in surgery at the University of Illinois. In his first season with the Bears, McColl's contacts fell out a few times, but he has no trouble now that they have been refitted. And Dr. McColl wears them into surgery, where his eyeglasses used to steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Contacts in the Eye | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

...Steam Table. In Appleton, Wis., James Van Boxtel was fined $15 for speeding, even though he explained that he had just bought two hot pizza pies and was hurrying to get them home before they cooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 1, 1960 | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...hitherto noted chiefly for peaches, sheep and sugar beets. This unlikely region, in Box Elder County north of Great Salt Lake, is boiling with frantic activity. Strange lights glare in the night, making the mountains shine, and a grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these strange goings-on mark the development of the Minuteman, the solid-fuel missile that its proponents confidently expect will ultimately replace the liquid-fuel Atlas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home of Minuteman | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Scene of their exertions: the Golden Door, a sort of rich woman's Vic Tanny, which last week opened its $300-a-week rooms, whirlpool baths and scented steam chambers to men. All week, the youth seekers submitted to facials, manicures, pedicures, aromatic oilings, honey packs and pummeling by a benevolently mechanical Iron Maiden. Actor Jim (Mr. Magoo) Backus, 46, his intricate schedule pinned to his sweatshirt, worked up special enthusiasm for lip-stretching, wrinkle-reducing maneuvers that pulled his mouth from ear to ear. Actor and Health Faddist Robert Cummings, 50, gyrated in a wild tangle with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: After Many a Summer .. . | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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