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ACTH, expensively extracted from the pituitary glands of cattle, also helps many a disease, such as arthritis, but the magic compound, unfortunately, is anything but simple. It is a polypeptide, a large molecule (molecular weight 4,500) made up of many amino-acid units arranged in a long chain. Chemists have puzzled over its structure for years, but have learned only bits and scraps about it. Polypeptides (related to proteins) are baffling things to deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: ACTH Dissected | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...been filed. Cried Barbara: "Why do they torture me? I was ready at 10 o'clock." At 11:12 the phone rang once more; the court had rejected the last plea. At 11:31 Barbara entered the chamber; at 11:34 the cyanide pellets were dropped in the acid. Barbara held her breath, tilted her head back as if praying; at 11:37½ she breathed and died, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Sea Gull | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Acid Test. In Coral Gables, Fla., after it ate through gasoline tins, dissolved the plaster in the ceiling and began dripping on a sergeant's desk, police quickly dumped 55 gallons of confiscated moonshine stored in their attic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...They have watched the number of legitimate playhouses in Manhattan drop from 75-odd (in 1929) to 32 (in 1955), and have seen the once heavy traffic in road companies dwindle to a mere trickle. Some would agree with New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr's acid contention that "nobody-but nobody-is willing to subject himself to any contemporary theatrical experience he can get out of," but many may be jolted by Critic Kerr's current diagnosis of the ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Death by Ibsenitis | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...nonscientific visitor," said the Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend, "is bound to get lost, even with a guide, in an atmosphere charged with pi-mesons, v-particles, tyrosinase and halogenated cyclobutane carboxylic acid. His interpreters, the scientists themselves, are willing, but communications are difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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