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Safety in the Storeroom. The amateur psychologists were far from reliable at first. When they ran I.Q. tests on their fellow cons, they deliberately held the scores down to make their own I.Q.s look better by comparison. Soon they were showing the objectivity of professionals. When Punch, the gangster, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Stuff | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

The strip worried them because it depicted a hospital nurse who had decided to engineer a mercy killing of her sick father. She had put an overdose of narcotics in a hypodermic so that her father's nurse, thinking she was giving a normal dose, would inject it and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Operation on the Doctor | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

The headline and story about draft policy in Thursday's CRIMSON gave an erroneous impression of my views. I am not necessarily opposed to the plan approved in principle by General Hershey or in favor of any other specific plan at this stage of the discussion. The problem is exceedingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clarifies Draft Statement | 10/24/1950 | See Source »

Such statements are bound to get attention from Americans who (correctly) consider themselves possible victims of Russian A-bombs. Very few Americans now believe that the Kremlin can be conciliated or appeased or reasoned with. Very few are content to sit back and wait for the Communists to strike. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: War Now? Or When? Or Never? | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Declining Imports. Cant got its second big push in the mid-19th Century, when U.S. cons, doxies, hoboes and fingers stopped importing so much from abroad. Since then, U.S. cant has grown so rapidly that today it is "numerically larger than the British"-and still so wildly prolific that just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A College Is a Prison | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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