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...Nelson, just out of an iron lung, might take months to recover fully. Martha Nelson. 4, was running around but still under observation. Grandma Gruwell, 64, was propped up in a hospital bed, apparently on the mend. Three children-Eileen, 14, Allen, 10, and Donald, 8, who had not eaten the beets-were in good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Canned Death | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...that the nudibranch chromodoris has no known enemies despite size, bright coloration, and lack of shell or protection [July 6]. Sir, have you ever eaten a nudibranch chromodoris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...cyanide, partly a Charles Addams kind of jolly ghoulishness, and partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world. No one's flesh crawled when Jack Benny carried on a running gag about a bear named Carmichael that he kept in the cellar and that had eaten the gasman when he came to read the meter. The novelty and jolt of the sickniks is that their gags ("I hit one of those things in the street-what do you call it, a kid?") come so close to real horror and brutality that audiences wince even as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Sickniks | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Dark of Night. In Rio de Janeiro, after learning that one U.S. mailman had been bitten by ten dogs in the course of his career, Postmaster Agelico Loureiso boasted: "Our rural carriers have often been bitten and even eaten by jaguars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...they found them more than ready for Christianity. The animist Eskimo religion is formidable with taboos, short on nourishment for the soul and solutions to community problems. Taboos often left an Eskimo physically as well as spiritually starved; for example, certain parts of an animal were forbidden to be eaten if a man had recently died in the community, other parts were forbidden if a woman had died, and frequently, when both a man and a woman had died, everyone went hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Eskimo Deacon | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

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