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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Thirty-seven ex-New Dealers, denouncing Wallace's Progressive Party as "a corruption of American liberalism," announced their support of Truman. In print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Pot Boils, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

The act has created its own legends. A puzzle still unsolved by the Ministry of Health: the case of the dentist who pulled two of his own teeth, and sent in a claim for payment to himself. Last week* a butcher in Dudley, Worcestershire, asked for three pairs of eyeglasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Wigs & Lots of Teeth | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Three drug-manufacturing firms (Squibb, Merck, Parke-Davis), experimenting with variations on streptomycin, found a complex chemical answer: dihydrostreptomycin (two atoms of hydrogen added to the original antibiotic). Two teams of doctors immediately started testing it. Last week the first public announcement of results was made in St. Paul, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Streptomycin-Plus | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

*Republican Robert E. Freer, Democrats Garland S. Ferguson, Ewin L. Davis and William A. Ayres.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Dissenter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Impossible as it may seem, Howle Houston gets better every week, and it was difficult to tell that guard Jerry Kanin" where the injured regulars ought ter and tackle Will Davis were "filling to have been.

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Victory Shows Crimson Still Potential Unit | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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