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...past decade, such loutish antics have kept Truth or Consequences among the top-ranking radio shows. Last week, sponsored by Philip Morris, hearty, toupee-wearing M.C. Ralph Edwards moved his slapstick-and-bladder show onto television (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). "This is just the genesis, the little seed," he boasted of his first TV performance. "I have the feeling that, within the first half-dozen shows, we'll get into the top five TV programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anything for Laughs | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...developed the first method of making the gall bladder visible to the X-ray machine. Thus, gall bladder diseases can generally be detected and diagnosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Another Laurel | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

March of Science. In Atlanta, a 17-year-old mountain girl, admitted to Georgia Baptist Hospital for a bladder operation, was unimpressed when she received her first telephone call (from her mother), commented: "At home Ma'd be right there-and I could hear her better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

After Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, 63, had a gall bladder and appendix operation in Cincinnati, his surgeon, Dr. Reed Shank, was startled by a long-distance call from Washington. Harry Truman was on the line saying: "He's a personal friend of mine and I wanted to hear directly from you how he's doing." Dr. Shank told the President that the patient's condition was "very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Self-conscious teen-agers are sternly warned against trying the treatment on themselves. Said Dr. McEvitt: "It would be like somebody taking out his gall bladder at home. No one could possibly do it. It would be so terribly painful that he would have to stop in a few seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rough Stuff | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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