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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leiden, Juliana wrote a three-act comedy called Bluebeard. It was a slightly Shavian version of the story, with Bluebeard depicted as a psychiatrist and golf enthusiast; Juliana herself played one of Bluebeard's wives. Another time, she tried her hand at poetry; her anonymous entry in a class contest was judged "song of the year." The refrain went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Woman Who Wanted a Smile | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles, Curtis Boettiger, 18, famed during the '30s as White House grandchild Buzzie Dall, now an assistant radio producer, came down with polio, an affliction not unfamiliar to his mother, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. He was still hopeful that he would be able to act as secretary to his grandmother when the U.N. meets in Paris later this month. His doctors described the attack as definitely "a mild case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Another litterateur, Mae West, was sued for $100,000 by two writers who claimed that she swiped their stuff for her play, Catherine Was Great. Unruffled, Mae was putting on a good act in court, with the prosecution lawyers as her straight men. What was her first literary effort? "Sex," she said, deadpan. Why couldn't she remember the sequence of Catherine's 300 lovers? "I can't remember the order. No woman could." Well, why didn't she put all the lovers in the play? "Look," she replied, "I did the best I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Editor Carter, of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, was brought into the act by the Providence Journal. It had carried the Sprigle series (along with 13 other Northern papers), and felt that its readers had a right to hear from the defense. Carter wrote a six-part series called "Jim Crow's Other Side," which was offered last week to papers which syndicated Sprigle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jim Crow's Other Side | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Phenosulfazole does not act directly on the virus; it seems to affect tissue cells. Without destroying the cells, it changes their physiology to make them unpalatable to the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Phenosulfazole | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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