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Where, if not to the physics textbooks, could the postwar world turn for a new moral impetus which it so obviously needed? The Christian churches were locked in a struggle with materialism, which had been growing for 150 years and of which Communism was the deadliest projection. There could be no evading this defensive struggle; however, it absorbed a very high proportion of the energies of Christian institutions needed in other vineyards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: In a Hollow Tree | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

SINCE THE ARABS TOOK THE ABSURD ATTITUDE THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND THEIR PALESTINE HOMES AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ASSAULTS OF ZIONISM, AN UNPROVOKED CAMPAIGN WAS WAGED AGAINST THEM, WIELDING THE DEADLIEST OF WEAPONS RIDICULE. IN YOUR ISSUE OF APRIL 21, APROPOS OF NOTHING, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF THE WEAPONS OF ZIONISM, YOU HELD UP TO RIDICULE AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND A REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Benny, never too glib with an ad lib, has seldom had the last word. Fred is the deadliest remarksman in show business. Once Jack twitted Fred about some fictitious "signs they hold up on your program telling people when to laugh. We don't have them on our show." Fred retorted: "You must remember, Jack, we're dealing with a class of people who can read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...grim problem that faced 125 of the nation's top gastric specialists last week at an extraordinary conference in Chicago. Their chairman, Dr. Andrew Conway Ivy of the University of Illinois Medical College, gravely suggested that the time had come for emergency action. Though gastric cancer is the deadliest, it is getting the least study. Some points: ¶ Gastric cancer gives no early warning, is usually unsuspected until too late. ¶By the time they get to a doctor, only 8% of stomach-cancer victims can be successfully treated, 25% are beyond all help. ¶The best protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Need to Know | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

When & if a cancer cure ever develops, present indications are that it will be found among the more virulent poisons. Reason: only the deadliest artillery (e.g., poisonous radioactive materials, X rays) can kill a cancer cell. Out last week was the news that during World War II, U.S. cancer specialists had launched an uncommonly interesting study of the cancer-killing possibilities of mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mustard against Cancer | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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