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With this, Freedman tacked wildly, offered to put up $10,000 to clear Mrs. Rosenberg's good name. This was unnecessary. The committee cleared her completely and unequivocally, voted 13 to 0 to confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Sea Gull's Nest | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...time at the State Department, MacLeish concentrated on explaining the Department to the public. It was his project that brought representatives from 40 or 50 major U. S. organizations to San Francisco to watch the American delegation at the birth of the United Nations. Recent events have tended to confirm MacLeish's long-standing view that the Department's first concern should be to sell itself to the American public before devoting all its propaganda efforts to foreign areas...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Archibald MacLeish: Yaleman at Harvard | 12/6/1950 | See Source »

Since all such patients firmly believe themselves pregnant, it does no good simply to tell them that they are not, said Dr. Fried and his colleagues. A woman with pseudocyesis will go shopping for another doctor to confirm her pregnancy, or her symptoms will soon recur. A careful explanation with a little psychiatric treatment does the trick, said the doctors. Four of their patients, infertile for two to seven years, later became really pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not Even Slightly | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...play to many more players, thus making Harvard teams better. The reporter's misunderstanding was in thinking that freshman football players were down and spiritless. This is not true; I have never made such a statement. The players' spirit has been excellent for each and every game, and to confirm this statement come over and see us play Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Football Spirit | 11/24/1950 | See Source »

Network radio, with armies of pulse-takers to confirm its judgment, seems to be betting its future on the assumption that the U.S. prefers comics to classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shove-Around | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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