Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those happy-go-lucky anti-blues pills, Meratran [TIME, June 28], will set civilization back a thousand years. No more worried people, no unhappy love affairs, no discontented workers. Have a pill, friend! No war, no peace talks, no useless trips to the doctor, no kicking the dog around and no teeth knocked out. If this is a preview of heaven, count me out . . . The Creator was wise in creating the discontented human species . . . Under this pill system, people will shoot themselves just for the hell...
...televise an atomic-bomb explosion (TIME, May 5, 1952), last week unveiled what may turn out to be a fissionable little package for TV's idea-starved programmers. The show is nothing more than good old Bingo, dressed up in a new name-Marco-and given a dog-food manufacturer (Thoro-Fed) for a sponsor instead of the Ladies' Aid Society. But it has one great advantage over most audience-participation shows: every home viewer can compete every week...
...part. He has a real wingding with Sheree North in a jive dive and some nice nonsense of drinking champagne through a stethoscope. Best bit: Jerry, hung over and feeling awful, catches the boiled eye of his basset hound, who looks worse; with a groan, Jerry gives the dog his own ice pack...
Down Wind. In Kosciusko, Miss., charged with operating a still, Rudolf Slater swore he never would have been caught except that his dog's run-in with a skunk had left it unable to smell approaching revenuers...
What happened? Publishers had flooded their market. Distributors who knew nothing about books shipped out titles indiscriminately, then engaged in dog-eat-dog fights for display space on the racks of embattled retailers who seldom know Homer from Mike Hammer. But the retailers did know when they had enough...