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Dates: during 1940-1949
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* The name compound E is no longer used because of confusion with the unrelated vitamin E.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aching Joints | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

A Rootless Family. Eleanor Roosevelt's first installment does have some of the rambling, gossipy quality of a club-car conversation on a long train ride. But from it emerge poignant flashes of the confusion of life with a man who had also married destiny. "As I saw it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Call from Hyde Park | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Wyoming's slender, shaggy-browed Joseph C. O'Mahoney stood up on the Senate floor last week and exclaimed: "It is clear to me that someone has to straighten it out . . . [with] plain language." The "it" was the confusion over prices caused by the U.S. Supreme Court'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Clearing the Air | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

These are the dog days of the crew season, when exam period and a long gap between races combine to give Newell boathouse an unwonted air of manorial gloom. At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, usually a time of crowded confusion, Coach Bolles could be found sitting alone in his...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Adjourn to Red Top To Prepare for Yale Race | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

* Who resumed her maiden name recently (with the prefix Mrs.) "to avoid confusion" with Wa-laceite. Ted, now editor of the new Manhattan tabloid, Daily Compass.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Postman | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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