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Diagnosis and Cure. General Bradley went to Africa a book soldier, who had spent 20 years studying and teaching without ever hearing a shot fired in anger. He got his first combat command a year ago, taking over the U.S. II Corps from fiery, explosive Lieut. General George Patton, who went up to an Army command. The situation was not happy. U.S. forces had been spread around in penny packets under the overall strategy of British Army commanders; the tactical results had been something less than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Doughboy's General | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Plastics. Schireson, claimed the Record, came to the U.S. from Russia in 1889, got about a year's medical education at night school. He was twice arrested in Baltimore for peddling dope. In Pittsburgh he jumped bail when charged with practicing medicine on immigrants with a machine to cure syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer, other ailments. In Manhattan he was jailed for establishing a Madison Avenue practice without a license. His pickings as a "specialist" during six busy weeks in Utica totaled $36,000. Before coming to Philadelphia, said the Record, Schireson made "one of the largest medical incomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: King of Quacks | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...machine guns) are innumerable bottles of water being turned into "medicine" by the sun. The color of the glass determines the specific purpose. When one of the President's associates falls sick, Martínez prescribes a suitable bottle, and the patient invariably reports a miraculous cure. Such reports persuaded the President to treat his 13-year-old son for acute appendicitis. Operated upon too late, he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Haunted Theosophist | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

TIME'S story on abortions (March 6) ended sadly, in midair. After shocking its readers quite justifiably about the estimated 1,000,000 abortions in the U.S. each year, then pointing out that police raids are no more a cure than they were for bootlegging, TIME sighs and says that no one has yet figured out the answer to such questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Of Pullmans and Beaux | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...from Prince George, B.C. flew provincial police, to begin a vigil at outpost fur sales. Soon an Indian tried to sell 16 marten pelts which had been cured not as Indians cure them, shapeless and wrinkled, but the white man's way, long and smooth. Police arrested 22-year-old Alex Prince, charged him with the double murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: BRITISH COLUMBIA: At Deadman's Creek | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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