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...Could there be immunization against radiation? Science should investigate the possibility said Colonel Elbert Decoursey, Army pathologist who studied atomic 'bomb victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He did not suggest exposing people to tiny atomic bombs as a way of building up resistance, but he did cite research with animals: rats that have been dehydrated (the amount of water in their bodies reduced) survived longer than other rats .when exposed to radiation; animals whose metabolism was slowed down before exposure also did better. Thousands of lives could be saved, Colonel Decoursey said hopefully (while the other doctors looked politely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Radiation | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Utah's citizens, is still the greatest influence in the state's politics. Utah's two Congressmen and both its Senators are Mormons, and so is Governor Herbert B. Maw. Mormon politicians do not invariably follow the hierarchy. Neither the Governor nor Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas are "church candidates" in the sense that they represent the church's ultra-conservative policies on such matters as labor and foreign policy. Mormon voters have a mind of their own, too. Despite the church's opposition they gave Roosevelt a majority four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Elbert M. Antrim, 61, rosy-cheeked business manager, watches the Tribune's fat till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Century | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...education program. He is co-author with New Dealing Senator Lister Hill and Elbert Thomas of a bill to guarantee at least a $4O-per-annum expenditure per child in every state. (Some states now put out as little as $7.) ¶A voluntary health-insurance bill. He is dead set against compulsory insurance, which he considers socialized medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Age of Taft | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Married. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 63, Utah's scholarly, Japanese-speaking U.S. Senator (since 1932), who as chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee has been a leading proponent of Army-Navy merger; and Ethel Evans, his 44-year-old secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Salt Lake City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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