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There was a young farmer named Graham, Who, though bugs ate his crops, wouldn't spray 'em. He explained: "I've a droll But effective control: I just catch all the females and spay 'em...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Delicate Operator. In Milwaukee, when Patrolman William Klippel slipped up behind a burglar and murmured "stick 'em up," the burglar gasped and fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1952 | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

They say that Ike is dynamite on television, and Kefauver can win votes with the shake of a hand, and that Taft and Truman reap ballots by the bushel with their blunt, give-'em-hell type campaigning. But the most important single factor in the November presidential election may be not the popularity of any of the candidates, but the will of the man everybody hates--Joe Stalin...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Who Does Stalin Like? | 3/21/1952 | See Source »

...Trial?" growled the taxidriver to six burly friends on leaving the building, "they should be tried in a cellar. Hell, they should hang 'em...

Author: By David C. D. rogirs, | Title: "Hang' em all..." | 3/19/1952 | See Source »

...outcry was loud and prompt. Like many a medical evangelist, Dr. Lincoln has a handful of devoted disciples. Among them: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey.* "Smash 'em right in the eyes!" howled Tobey when he heard what the medical society had done. "Lick 'em like a custard! They're crucifying a wonderful man-a genius." By no coincidence, Tobey is one of Lincoln's patients; he insists on getting the bacteriophage treatment three or four times a week in the office of Capitol Physician George Calver. He says that it has considerably reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Whiff of Phage | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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