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Next came an interlude of cowboy tunes, including The Old Chisholm Trail ("Coma ti yi youpy, yappy yay, yappy yay, Coma ti yi youpy yappy yay," which probably sounded like static to Russian ears), a talk on a new cure for hay fever (the U.S. has 5,000,000 sufferers), and a new method of exploring the Milky Way. When the closing theme, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, went out over the air, Soviet Russia was still at least as distant as the Milky Way. Just as the Voice of America signed off, the Voice of Russia (Moscow Radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Let's Talk | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...wonder how long it will take before the progressive, scientifically developed peoples of the r world will be able to distinguish between the criminal and the diseased and will treat each group individually. I doubt sincerely if Judge Scott's method of cure -nine months in jail and then five years of probation-will prove very effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...every Alcoholic Anonymous knows, "twelfth-step work" (helping other alcoholics) is one of the most important single factors in keeping members on the wagon. No cure, the A.A. method is effective only as long as a member keeps it up. An A.A. member is in for life. Those who quit usually go back to the bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Membership | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...line, permitting an occasional breath of life to creep into a picture. Unfortunately, Girl Scouts and ex-ward bosses have crawled back into the censorship field and take pot shots at anything coming out of Hollywood in a two piece bathing suit. Significantly, the old adage about the cure being worse than the disease applies here. Witness "Duel in the Sun." Selnick's horse opera attained a thirty percent box office edge over other films once criticism had been levelled at it. Had "Duel's" standards of decency been left to the Johnson Office, and its artistic merits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...There is no cure for the common cold; U.S. doctors could save their patients millions of dollars on nostrums annually if they frankly admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Compleat Practitioner | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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