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This unpleasant news was first uncovered last spring when Birmingham's city analyst, armed with a new $1,400 spectro-photometer,* began testing vitamin products taken from the shelves of Birmingham pharmacies. His report: 42% of the samples "advertised as containing specified amounts of vitamin A" were no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vitiated Vitality | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Joan Stocker, 18, was fed up. She and her husband, a U.S. Air Force sergeant, had been living in England for several months and boarding with English families. One day, from Newmarket in Suffolk, she sent a sizzling letter to her hometown paper, the Palo Alto (Calif.) Times. "We are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Damned Cheek | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

It also contains many of the standard gibes of European intellectuals-no surprise, since Midwesterner Bromfield himself spent 15 expatriate years in France prior to 1938. The ideas behind Mr. Smith hatched after his return. "I was struck very forcefully," he says, "by things I might not have noticed if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Babbitt | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

There are only six water closets serving the three middle levels. These must serve over two hundred people during the post-breakfast runs. Students who are unable to head for the better-equipped first of fifth levels often must endure a long wait before they are accommodated.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood, Sweat and Tears | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

Ramrod Discipline. Today, under the superintendency of Major General Richard J. Marshall, distant cousin of General Marshall, V.M.I, stretches out over 300 acres, a place of fortress-like tan stucco-covered buildings, looming towers, and crenellated walls. V.M.I. still takes a fierce pride in its ramrod discipline. All cadets live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tower of Strength | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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