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...seem silly to take the trouble to find out what the Zulu word for "home" is (we haven't found it yet); what the late President Calvin Coolidge's "cure" for seasickness was (if he had one); who "actually" was the first person to make ice cream (the evidence is inconclusive); how German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had his flat feet fixed (he didn't). But the temptation to try to find the correct answer is irresistible-and the result goes into TIME'S morgue for the future use, or edification, of TIME'S editors...
...doctor abruptly announces, "This is cancer," his patients will react in many ways. Eight out of ten, says Dr. Lund, might consent to surgery but "of these half might never forgive the doctor for his brutality." One patient out of ten might "believe erroneously that cancer is never cured and therefore decide to have no treatment. The other might be so upset mentally that [he] leaves the doctor and goes to a charlatan in whose hands all hope of cure will be lost...
...Cure-All. In addition to this deflationary revaluation, Canada means also to do some belt-tightening. If prices go too high in the U.S., then Canada will probably cut down on certain imports. The attitude of some officials was: "If oranges go way up, we'll get along without oranges as England does. Let Canadians eat Canadian apples...
...thunderhead of rumor appeared on the horizon-the germs were rallying and fighting back. All over the U.S., bacteriologists studied the phenomenon, and by last week the rumors were well confirmed. Within a few years, ventured Dr. Hans Molitor, penicillin and streptomycin may lose much of their power to cure some of the most prevalent diseases. No alarmist, Dr. Molitor should know what he is talking about: as director of the Merck Institute, he was a pioneer in the development of antibiotics...
...among the bacteria. Gonorrheal infections now often do not respond as readily to the sulfa drugs as they did a few years ago. Penicillin is still effective against the disease; but the British Medical Journal, reviewing recent research, warns "against the idea that penicillin will necessarily continue indefinitely to cure nearly every case...