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Edna Ferber author of the book “Giant.” Miss Ferber visited the home of Dr. Hector P. Garcia before writing the book “Giant” (photograph)
No full textEdna Ferber author of the book “Giant.” Miss Ferber visited the home of Dr. Hector P. Garcia before writing the book “Giant.
Sanford Bates Correspondence to Martin J. Ferber
No full textA letter addressed to Martin J. Ferber from Fred T. Wilkinson concerning architectural consultants
Edna Ferber in St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio, Tex., 1948
No full text''Ferber's novel, Giant, set on a fictitious south Texas ranch, was published in 1952.''''Edna Ferber was in San Antonio on Saturday for a search of the surrounding ranch country for material and characters for a new book. The author of Show boat was registered at the St. Anthony Hotel.'
Jack L. Warner, Edna Ferber, George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg, GIANT, 1956
No full textLeft to right: Studio head Jack L. Warner, Edna Ferber (the author of GIANT), producer-director George Stevens, and producer Henry Ginsber for the film GIANT, 1956. 11x14 b&w photographic print
Pius XII. und die Geistlichen im KZ Dachau
No full textThe article publishes—for the first time—a letter written in December 1942 in the Sedelhof, Emmenbrücke, near Lucerne, concerning the incarcerated priests in the Dachau concentration camp. Its author is the German refugee Walter Ferber (1907-1996) and its recipient the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, Filippo Bernardini (1884-1954). Bernardini forwards the letter to the Vatican Secretary of State, Luigi Maglione (1877-1944). Maglione’s reply to Bernardini shows that the Vatican knew about the crimes committed in concentration camps since at least December 1942, and explains the lack of public intervention by Pope Pius XII concerning the incarcerated priests in Dachau and, in part, the Nazi extermination policy in general. Despite this lack of public intervention, Pope Pius XII uses the term “the holocaust” (l'olocausto) already in his Christmas message of December 24, 1942
Building Spanning Trees Quickly in Maker-Breaker Games
No full textFor a tree T on n vertices, we study the Maker-Breaker game, played on the edge set of the complete graph on n vertices, which Maker wins as soon as the graph she builds contains a copy of T. We prove that if T has bounded maximum degree and is sufficiently large, then Maker can win this game within n+1 moves. Moreover, we prove that Maker can build almost every tree on n vertices in n-1 moves and provide nontrivial examples of families of trees which Maker cannot build in n-1 moves
The calcium I.V. infusion induces an increase of adenosine plasma levels and a coronary steal phenomenon in humans
No full textQTc interval prolongation during infusion with dipyridamole or adenosine
No full textThe aim of our study was to discover whether there was a relationship between the QTc interval prolongation on the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) and provoked myocardial ischemia. Since the increase of adenosine plasma levels, obtained either with adenosine or dipyridamole (an adenosine reuptake inhibitor) infusion, has been used to test the coronary artery reserve in patients affected by coronary artery disease, the QTc interval modifications during dipyridamole or adenosine echocardiographic stress test were evaluated. Twenty-five patients admitted to our Institute for evaluation of chest pain of suspected myocardial origin underwent an echocardiographic dipyridamole stress test (0.84 mg/kg over 10 min) after discontinuation of antianginal treatment. Of these patients, 10 underwent an echocardiographic adenosine stress test (scalar doses of 50, 75, 100, 140 μg/kg/min) after 48–72 h. The Bazett formula was used to evaluate the QTc interval. After dipyridamole and adenosine administration, a significant prolongation of the QTc interval was observed only in those patients who had positive test results. Our data suggested that QTc interval prolongation during pharmacological stress tests might be considered a marker of myocardial ischemia
Recognition, resistance and empire in the frontier fiction of Jewett, Cather and Ferber
No full textThis dissertation examines how female agency is negotiated in relation to U.S. expansionism in Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) and later Dunnet Landing stories (1899-1910), Willa Cather's A Lost Lady (1923) and Edna Ferber's Giant (1952). Focusing on the frontiers of Maine, Nebraska and Texas as borderland territories with mythic boundaries and displaced immigrant populations, I trace the permutations of empire and the growth of capitalism as experienced through the domestic politics of both home and nation. For each author, the turn towards female subjectivity is a narrative of recognition and resistance in which empire lurks, compromising women's work inside and outside the home. With the aid of theorists such as Homi Bhaba, Pierre Bourdieu and Gayatri Spivak, I offer an interdisciplinary analysis of these "regional" texts, demonstrating how the presence of white middle-class women on the frontier disrupts ideologies of dominance and control. Such an analysis encourages a reading of these texts that addresses historical specifics as well as global concerns. Chapter One follows Jewett's narrator through Dunnet Landing as she employs the tools of ethnography to observe the rituals of Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Blackett, and the Queen's twin. Material objects of the European empire construct an ordered domestic interior where the narrator may escape the demands of city life. Chapter Two incorporates T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to highlight the subversive and cosmopolitan elements of Cather's Marian Forrester, delineating ways in which capitalism is both sexualized and domesticated. I underscore the importance of hospitality, manners and mimicry in Cather's portrayal of the complexities of westward expansion on the Nebraska frontier. Chapter Three charts the monstrous fulfillment of colonial enterprise in Ferber's Giant, in which immigrant relations are portrayed in terms of the real and the imagined on the Benedicts' Reata Ranch. Focusing on the gendered components of the "civilizing mission," I suggest that Ferber portrays capitalism in oil-crazed Texas as a dangerous power that must be resisted privately and publicly
Immigrant Participation in Welfare Benefits in the Netherlands
No full textThe efficiency of Dutch welfare system is at the heart of debate as long as immigrants are overrepresented in social welfare benefits during the working age period. This paper examines the degree of participation in social assistance, disability and unemployment benefits across ethnic groups using register data of the entire population in the Netherlands. The analysis shows that migrants are drastically more likely to have a benefit, in particular social assistance and disability benefits. A large part of migrants' dependence can be explained by their background characteristics and immigration history but still a significant unexplained residual is left. Most notably, the probability of welfare use of non-western second generation is about twice as high as the probability of western immigrants, which is a true challenge for policy makers.ethnic minorities, benefits, inactivity
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