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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined the nearly defunct Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, eventually became secretary-treasurer of both the society and the seven-man examining board, which issues licenses. Last year there were no license applications, so Go-Getter Reddick advertised for new members. Of the 23 candidates that showed up, eleven were from a correspondence college (Fremont) in Los Angeles; seven from an uncertified, nonactive San Francisco school (Western Medical College) that graduated only one class in the last four years. None was a resident of the state. But with a Maryland license, each could practice in 25 states and territories that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Homeopathic Hassle | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...down. And I was lucky when we auditioned for the Cotton Club job. Six other bands auditioned, and they were all on time. We were late, but the big boss was late too, and he heard us and he never heard the others." Duke enlarged his band to eleven pieces and stayed at the Cotton Club on Harlem's Lenox Avenue for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mood Indigo & Beyond | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...long-awaited Civil Aeronautics Board decision on the rich New York-to-Miami airline run came last week. To little (eleven aging DC-3s, six early-model Convairs) Northeast Airlines (1955 net: $379,937) went the grandest prize in the CAB bag: permission to fly the "Gold Coast" run, with National and Eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Off to Miami | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Mexico (16): With Senator Clinton Anderson's widely publicized help for Adlai. probably eleven for Stevenson, five for Harriman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ADLAI'S GLORY ROAD | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...Angeles, the National Association for Better Radio and Television, an earnest organization headed by a dentist's wife and staffed by eleven housewife "panelists," put out its sixth annual ratings of juvenile TV programs, condemned 31 out of 67 as "objectionable" or "most objectionable." Hopalong Cassidy, said NAFBRAT, is "objectionable because of typical Western crime element." At Captain Midnight, "even the stronghearted falter," and Jungle Jim episodes are a "mixture of kidnaping, torture, unbearable suspense, horrible screams." NAFBRAT also condemned Superman ("Youngsters believe his 'super' talents to be within the realm of possibility. In this lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Violent & the Bland | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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