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Natural childbirth is no craze. It is the desire of a group of healthy, well-adjusted women to go about having their babies naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1953 | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Better Answer? The dissatisfaction was mirrored in the postwar hot-rod craze-in which backyard mechanics sought to improve on Detroit's product-and the importation of thousands of foreign cars, such as terrierlike M.G.s, Jaguars, Porsches and Lancias (see color pages). Sports-car clubs sprang up everywhere, and raced their cars at Bridgehampton and Watkins Glen, N.Y., Elkhart Lake, Wis., Pebble Beach, Calif. and Sebring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Low-Slung Beauty | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

More than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a "more comfortable and happy event" is being slighted in the current craze for "natural childbirth," says a team of four Baltimore physicians. "It is no longer considered smart talk at the bridge table to discuss twilight sleep or painless labor," the doctors* say in Psychosomatic Medicine. "The woman of the day is one who can vividly describe every last detail of her delivery, including the ecstasy of the unassisted expulsion of the placenta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Natural or Unnatural? | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

Chlorophyll Cigarettes. In Worcester, Mass, and Cincinnati, Larus & Brother Co., Inc. joined the chlorophyll craze, began test sales of Hale Cigarettes, the filter tips of which are impregnated with chlorophyll. Price: about 5? more than regular brands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...chlorophyll craze which has been sweeping the U.S. for two years or more has no justification in scientific fact, the American Chemical Society heard last week from a topflight chemist, Professor Alsoph H. Corwin of Johns Hopkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Good, Green Fun | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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