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...have been reading about your and your associates DNA, and also about the Thalidomide as reported in Readers Digest, October, 1962, and in the digestion of these articles it came to me that in the process of DNA, in the embryo stage, could it be that this potent medicine could be the direct cause for the molecular reaction, DNA, to, or part thereof to be tranquilized and in this manner the DNA could not get the report through to the molecules responsible for the growth of the extremities of the fetus. In other words, could it be possible that Thalidomide...

Author: By Dean Neigh, | Title: Fama Semper Vivat | 11/10/1962 | See Source »

...screen by Director Sidney Lumet, who has added nothing to O'Neill's playscript and taken very little away, Journey provides a raw red slice of family life, liberally garnished with rotgut, morphine, vitriol and sour grapes, that takes more than three hours (allowing intermission) to digest. But it feeds the inner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Serpent That Eats Its Tail | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...appreciations and portraits of six important modern writers, indirectly produces a memorable insight into how his own complex fiction-writer's mind savors the world. "Nothing is more original, nothing truer to oneself," he quotes Paul Valery, "than to feed on others' minds. Only be sure you digest them. The lion consists of assimilated sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sound of the Seashell | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...stuffed with thousands of them, and every part of living organisms was manufactured by them. They act as organic catalysts that speed up chemical changes in cells without taking part in the change themselves. In the case of an enzyme-treated cut of meat, the enzyme simply begins to digest the meat, making it tenderer and saving part of the labor of the enzymes present in everyone's digestive juices. Enzymes, in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: Tenderness in the Kitchen | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...Bible translations seem to be born every year: there are Bibles in Basic English, in meter, in I-see-the-cat prose for kindergartens, in Reader's Digest-like condensations. But the New English Bible that is being translated by British Protestant scholars is no such trifle. It is a serious effort to create an accurate Bible in contemporary prose, and its sponsors hope that it will be good enough to replace the King James Version in Christian worship services. The New Testament went on sale last year; the Old will not be ready for publication until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out with the Old | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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