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...public-opinion pollsters, said President Truman on Election Day, "are going to be red-faced tomorrow." He was right. Not since the Literary Digest fiasco of 1936 had opinion-samplers come such a cropper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Situation Wanted | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

MISSOURI WEAKFISH: Propels itself in short, jerky movements-in any direction. Swallows twice its capacity to digest. Gregarious, but prefers society of other Missouri weakfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HUNGRY FOR THE HOOK | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...When the digestive system begins to digest itself, the result is ulcers. Doctors have tried everything from soup substitutes to surgery, but have found no sure prevention or cure. Famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, has been experimenting for a dozen years or so with a hormone called enterogastrone, found in normal small intestines of men and animals. Finding that the hormone cured ulcers in animals, he began using it five years ago on human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones for Ulcers | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...alone spend money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same joy we'd have in receiving a crisp new $100 bill. And how we share our treasures with our neighbors! That's a tale in itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...this well with a couple of hard running backs named Paul Girolamo and Bob Dunston, flavor with a 200 pound line, baste with the factors outlined above, and you have the substance Harvard will have to digest this afternoon. It ain't Lion meat, but it may upset...

Author: By Bill Fairfield, | Title: Even Odds Prevail in Battle at Ithaca Today | 10/9/1948 | See Source »

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