Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wouldn't be seen dead in a genealogy room, but you may want to check whether or not this 15th Century illumination (see cut, left) is the same device used in the Wallace coat of arms which you describe as "an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe" [TIME...
Good news for the mice is bad news for the human patients. By the tenth or eleventh day, at least four out of five of the control mice should be paralyzed or dead. But if the patient had polio, at least three out of five of the first group of mice should be alive and scampering; the human material protects them from the virus. If it did not protect them, the patient did not have polio. Said one U.S. investigator: "It's very encouraging . . . but right now it's just a bright idea...
Vaudeville, long since pronounced dead, had never looked more alive. Last week, on the boards of its old stronghold, Manhattan's Palace Theater (which surrendered to the movies in 1932), vaudeville was the star at the opening of the newest U.S. television station, American Broadcasting Co.'s WJZ-TV. The first show, from 7 o'clock until nearly midnight, featured all of vaudeville's tried & true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about...
...Sign of the Horns. Captured by the post-atom Californians, Poole is condemned by the Chief of the Californians to be buried "alive or dead ... as you like," but when he promises to teach the barbarians something about science, he is grudgingly let off-on condition that he swear by "Almighty Belial" and make "the sign of the horns." For in lower California during the 22nd Century, Belial, the devil himself, rules; his victory over "the Other One" was consolidated in Atomic War, though his battle for power began centuries before...
Tomorrow Will Be Better is the story of Margy Shannon of Maujer Street, the plainly dressed, neatly combed daughter of a factory worker, of her loves, job and marriage, the tragedy of her life (her child is born dead), and the beginning of her separation from her husband. It is so flatly written and so free of melodrama (or even of exciting incidents) that its interest is surprising-without plot and without particular distinction in its prose, with characters who seem merely to have wandered on the scene, it is nevertheless absorbing...