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Developed by Wallace Labs' Dr. Frank M. Berger from a muscle-relaxing drug which had some incidental calming effect, meprobamate was not generally released until last summer. It was offered to doctors for treating walk-in neurotics rather than locked-in psychotics, with the assurance that it was free from the unpleasant (and sometimes dangerous) side effects of the earlier tranquilizers, chlorpromazine and reserpine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Don't-Give-a-Damn Pills | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

Edwin A. (for Aloysius) Lahey is a stubby, rumpled Chicago Daily News correspondent who is one of the top U.S. labor reporters. Some colleagues go even farther. New York Timesman Meyer Berger, who is often called the best U.S. reporter, says: "Ed Lahey is the best reporter in America." Next week, Reporter Lahey, 53, will take over from Veteran Paul R. (for Roscoe) Leach, 65, who is retiring as head of the Washington bureau for John S. Knight's Chicago Daily News and the other Knight newspapers (the Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Up from the Ivy League | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...touch football, Lowell should not have much difficulty bettering its past records. The team has not won a game in three years. Steve Anderson, Len Levine, Mike Berger and Paul Pawlowski will probably be of most assistance in ending the losing streak. Bob Dubinsky, John Yeager, and Cliff Rand are expected to lead a strong soccer team, which also includes Ted Weyer and Mike Klein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty-Fifth Intramural Season to Begin Next Week With House Football, Soccer | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

...dashing as a hero would wish. He was captured, escaped to unoccupied France dressed in an artisan's clothes, carrying planks on his shoulder. Soon he was working with the Resistance. As a start, he dynamited locomotives, intermittently returning to writing. By 1944 he had become "Colonel Berger," in command of 1.500 men in the southwest of France. He was riding in a car with several rescued British parachutists when he fell into a German ambush; to let the British escape, he ran across a field to draw German fire, was shot in the thigh, ran on until other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man's Quest | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...good little French picture based on a 1923 novel by Colette called Le Blé en Herbe. The typically Colettish plot: a 16-year-old boy named Phil (Pierre-Michel Beck) and his mother share a summer home on the Brittany beach with 15-year-old Vinca (Nicole Berger) and her family. The coltish youngsters love their summer lives, although, as they emerge from childhood, they begin to feel the prickly pain of petty jealousies. Into Phil's, life there comes a mature woman (Edwige Feuillère) who at length welcomes him, curious, experimental and bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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