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...French, Marshall's intimation that the U.S. was at last going to seek "a cure rather than a ... palliative" for Europe's troubles was the best news since the Allies landed in Normandy. It mattered little that le plan Marshall was vague."Today there is something new in the lives of Frenchmen," breathed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: With Both Hands | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Retreat. The bad news was that the great hopes placed in the "wonder drug," streptomycin, as a T.B. cure have not entirely materialized. The experts at San Francisco heard a report on the first large-scale test of streptomycin. More than 800 cases were treated by the Veterans Administration, the Army and the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: T.B. | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the experts thought that streptomycin might be the beginning of the end of the long search for a tuberculosis cure. It is the first drug to have made any impression at all on forms of T.B. that used to be virtually 100% fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: T.B. | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Cure. In Lynchburg, Va., Lawrence Tweedy sued his doctor for $20,000, charged him with administering treatment that removed Tweedy's case of athlete's foot-and his big toe with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Courtship. Dirty water from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charms in the Hills | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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