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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes a man-or any other organism-grow old and die? Medicine doesn't know. Last week in St. Louis, Dr. Albert I. Lansing thought he might be on the trail of an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobody Gets Any Younger | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...selecting eggs from adolescent, mature and doddering rotifers, he determined that children of aged females die young, while offspring of youngsters live long. Lansing juggled rotifer generations around, eventually became expert enough to predict the life span of any given batch of eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobody Gets Any Younger | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...light a new cigar, the chorus does only a passable job with Herbert's music, mangling the words to widen their smiles. The dancing is fair; the supporting east barely struggles above a mediocre rut; but when Clark reappears, the show comes back to life. Vaudeville will never die so long as Clark and his cigar are smoldering; and in "Sweethearts," both Clark and cigar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...spite of the stature that it gains and the perspective that its program acquires, the Council does not live or die on the basis of its activities in the international and national spheres...

Author: By Sellg S. Harrison, | Title: Councils 'New Look' stirs Action on College Problems | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

...wrote French Biophysicist Pierre Lecomte du Noüy, who had noted that lower forms of life reproduce by dividing, and therefore never die a natural death. Last week, Nature's great invention was applied to 64-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divine Spark | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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