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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its manifold wit and moments of wisdom, the plotless Heartbreak House drifts along with its people, and at times reflects their languor. This is partly because Shaw's ante-bellum England is not in itself a theme, but only a framework for one. Where Chekhov portrayed something dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Last week's star-studded production was often brilliant, but not everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

For the last six years, the Army Quartermaster Corps has been boasting about steaks, eggs, and other perishable foods preserved by the glamorous atomic-age process of putting them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Back to the Laboratory | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

The irradiated foods are not at all radioactive, and no poisonous materials have been found in them. Suspicion is that the radiation may completely destroy natural vitamins (biotin, riboflavin. etc.), since the test animals show classic symptoms of severe vitamin deficiency. But the tests were haphazard and incomplete, so no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Back to the Laboratory | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

To check his theory. Professor Smith experimented on black carpenter ants, which are easy to collect in quantity. Hibernating adult ants proved to have as much as 10% glycerol in their bodies, but when the ants were gradually warmed up and became active, all of it disappeared. Chilling the ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ant & Automobile | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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