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...Smash "Em!" Last week the Massachusetts Medical Society asked Dr. Lincoln to resign from its membership. After months of painstaking inquiry, a committee of the society had found him guilty of unethical conduct. It had uncovered no evidence that the bacteriophage treatment caused direct harm to the patients, though committee members worried that it might. But the committee held that it is wrong for Dr. Lincoln to use a single, unproved treatment for all manner of diseases when his patients might be cured or relieved by tried & true methods...

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

...grateful for their support. But in the last presidential election, the Bees could not make up their minds, so they supported neither Truman nor Dewey. "If you don't know yourself who the best man is," says Eleanor, "you can't tell others. You just turn 'em loose and let 'em vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Beehive | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Last week the game of now-you-see-'em-now-you-don't hit such a dizzy pace that even its master player tried to call it quits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Harry Won't Quite Say | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...tell 'em a little tale," he begged. "Tell 'em I'm old enough to join the Army." His mother made him wait until he was 17, but she was delighted. Connie's father, a thin, patient man, had toiled as a West Virginia coal miner for 38 years, and then, seeking opportunity, had moved the family to the noisy streets of The Bronx. All he had found were part-time jobs as a porter and sexton. In Mrs. Charlton's mind, soldiering would be a fine career. When Connie finished his freshman year in high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Man's a Man | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...world where beat-and-swing-and-pack-'em-in no longer pays off, Les Brown advises: "Hire good men, make hit records, treat the men well, make hit records . . . hold on to the men, make hit records." For the Band of Renown, it works pretty well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Band Businessman | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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