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...Johnson, sunny-faced Hollywood hero, got the proof that he was a full-fledged popular idol: when he visited New Orleans, a couple of bobby-soxers went out of their way to tell him he was no good. He was, said they, a d. d. d.-dismal, dehydrated drip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...placed microphones on a board across the President's lap. He chuckled as he talked: "... I hope some of the scribes in the papers won't intimate that I expect to make Washington my permanent residence. . . ." He talked extemporaneously for three minutes, with the rain beginning to drip from the brim of his grey campaign hat. "This is a very wonderful welcome home ... a welcome I shall always remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champ Comes Home | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...written with ample hatred. Author Hecht's love for the Jews is expressed in phobic language suggestive of Nazi Julius Streicher's obscene anti-Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aunt Chasha's Umbrella | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Blue-eyed, thirtyish Jean Muir used to write club and society notes, found them "so much drip." Nineteen months ago she asked for and got another assignment: writing about the 125,000 workers who make her native Portland one of the shipbuildingest centers of the U.S. Her "By the Ways" column is crammed with names of men & women pipe fitters, torch-scissorers, crane wanglers, and with what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From Drip to Ship | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...typical case (a child under two), Dr. Alexander estimates the severity of the infection by measuring the sugar and chloride in the patient's spinal fluid. If the level is low, the infection is severe. Treatment begins with an injection of sulfadiazine and a continuous slow drip of salt solution into a vein. After the drip has gone on for about four hours, a measured amount of the special rabbit serum is put into the reservoir of weak salt solution. The amount used depends on the amount of infection. All the serum is given in two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meningitis Serum | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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