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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FALSE BUT DEMONSTRABLY FALSE . . . ON BEHALF OF MY COLLEAGUE ALBERT GRUNDEMAN WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU CORRECT THIS OBVIOUSLY FALSE STATEMENT WHICH YOU HAVE PUBLISHED AS IF IT WERE JUDICIALLY ESTABLISHED FACT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Pardon me, there, young man, but ascertaining from your dress I should hazard an estimate that you matriculate at Harvard A & M, am I correct...

Author: By Linc Reavis, | Title: "FAR ABOVE THE RIVER CHARLES. . . CORNELLIAN ANSWERS HARVARD SKEPTIC'S QUERIES" | 10/15/1954 | See Source »

WITHOUT LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH, I WOULD BEG TO CORRECT YOUR ESTIMATE OF THE LOCAL POPULATION OF VIRGINIA CITY IN THE REVIEW [AUG. 30] OF MY "COMSTOCK COMMOTION" FROM 2,450 TO THE ACTUAL 4OO. YOUR FIGURE SOUNDS BETTER, BUT IT ALSO GIVES US LESS FAVORABLE SALOON-TO-POPULATION RATIO. OUR 17 SALOONS FOR 4OO INHABITANTS, WE BELIEVE, IS THE GREATEST DENSITY IN THE U.S., AND WE DON'T WANT IT MISREPRESENTED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Paul Niehans, a stony-faced, ramrod-straight Swiss physician told it, his theory and practice of "cellular therapy" sounded plausible enough. Thirty years ago he had begun transplanting parts of animals (glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help from Animal Cells? | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...sits on the foam-rubber throne of Dunlop's empire is big (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), grey-haired George Edward Beharrell, 55. In his realm he finds one flaw: Dunlop sales rank but fifth in the U.S.* Last week George Beharrell made a big move to correct this flaw. He announced that Dunlop will spend $5,500,000 to modernize its plant at Buffalo and streamline its U.S. sales organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wheel of Fortune | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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