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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This belief of Alexandre Dumas' Lady of the Camellias was shared by her vast public. For the 19th century, which made tuberculosis both romantic and fashionable, was sure that somehow it was inextricably connected with thwarted love and melancholia. Early 20th century medicine, which sought to explain everything through germs, laughed at the Camille school of diagnosis. But in recent years, physicians have once again begun to see a connection between tuberculosis and emotional factors. Now a hardheaded Scottish physician, David Morris Kissen, practicing among working-class victims in the unromantic setting of Lanark, has reached a diagnosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Love Links & TB | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...first program, to be broadcast on Tuesday evening, will demonstrate how to begin a class and will explain the Language Research method. Several of the mechanical teaching devices, including film loops and records, will be shown on the Thursday program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Richards Will Aim TV Programs At Hungarian Refugee Teachers | 2/9/1957 | See Source »

Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government and a third member of the selection board board along with Kaysen and Lefeber, spoke last night before the members of Kirkland House to explain the two types of student which the committee found...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Kirkland House Plans To Canvass for $800 | 2/7/1957 | See Source »

Pushing through the overflow crowd jammed into the Senate caucus room to hear him, the Secretary of State appeared fit and fresh in his pin-stripe grey suit and gay red necktie. Once more he was on hand to explain the President's request for authorization to 1) use U.S. forces, if requested, to defend any Middle Eastern nation against Communism, and 2) spend, without restriction, $200 million of already appropriated funds for Middle Eastern economic aid. Late the next afternoon, as he wearily pulled on his overcoat after questioning by the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Middle East Debate (Contd.) | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...about some bookkeeping discrepancies that had cropped up in one of Kreuger's subsidiary companies, and there had been Ivar's strange breakdown on his recent trip to New York when he babbled, "I can't think any more! I am going crazy!" But Ivar would explain everything in his magnetic, confidence-restoring way. Ivar always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World's Greatest Swindler | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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