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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drinks, is dead set against cocktails) to relax them before dinner. Though she did not give up the weed herself until she was 51, Dr. Jordan has become convinced that smoking is invariably bad for a wounded digestion-for the ulcer victim it is "like pouring gasoline on a fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Crippled Digestions | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Europe more commercials are seen in movie theaters than on TV) came a parade of chimpanzees peddling tea, a horse in a German kitchen praising a new refrigerator, the Loch Ness monster breathing fire to light a Scotsman's cigarette. American cowboys peddled Scotch whisky in Spanish, and an African witch doctor praised British beer. Victims of auto accidents emerged with their shirts clean because they had been washed with France's Pax soap. "You can always tell the country of origin without a catalogue, even if you don't spot the language." said Judge Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Oscars for Commercials | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Israel's Department of Antiquities set 100 laborers digging into Tell Goliath, as it came to be called. On top they found a largely Arab cemetery. Below it were traces of Greek and Persian influence. Even lower was an Israelite layer, which showed signs of a great fire that Yeivin thinks may have raged in 586 B.C., during the Babylonian invasion under Nebuchadnezzar. Beneath was a city of the Canaanites, who occupied the Promised Land before Joshua's invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Lives there a boss who would fire a nubile, decorative (36-23-36) female assistant simply because she so resembles Cinemorsel Kim Novak that it is downright distracting? Answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Beauty & the Boss | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Hose Sorry Now? In Wells Ford, New Zealand, city officials discovered that a new, $160,000 fire station .had complete modern plumbing, no water supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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