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...Thomas G. Ward is a persistent man. Virology expert at Johns Hopkins University, he has spent the better part of the past three years looking for a cure for the common cold. In Chicago last week, at a conference of the Common Cold Foundation, he was obliged to report that he is still on the old, cold trail. "Personally," he said, "my favorite treatment is old Maryland rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Common Cold | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...debate over what Meeker should do with his $900 bankroll. Should he invest it in Whitmore's gas station? Or should he buy a boat and go junketing about the West Coast with Jean Hagen? The film never recovers from this odd digression, and Meeker's eventual cure is accomplished with Hollywood mirrors: in a tropical downpour, he saves his nephew's life, clears up his war neurosis in a brisk man-to-man chat with Whitmore, and, arm-in-arm with Jean, walks happily into the rainswept night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Discover a cancer cure before he himself was taken by the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Made by Bacteria. So far, Dr. Schopp and his colleagues report, they have treated 53 patients with Pyromen and compared them with 51 who did not get the drug. It is clear that Pyromen is no cure for polio. Among victims of bulbar polio treated with Pyromen, there were as many deaths (seven) as there were among the others. Also, polio is so unpredictable a disease that doctors may easily be fooled, and credit a drug for a patient's natural improvement. But, says Dr. Schopp, this admittedly sketchy study indicates that Pyromen helps virus-ravaged nerves to rebuild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pyromen v. Paralysis | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...that were not enough, the board's president, Mrs. Eleanor Allen, suddenly ran into some personal difficulties when she testified in federal court that a mysterious radiotherapy gadget, invented by a Hollywood chiropractor, could cure her of any illness, even though she were a thousand miles away. As a result of the unfavorable publicity, Mrs. Allen resigned from the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Board | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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