Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Danville (pop. now 10,000) celebrated the 150th anniversary of Pioneer Surgeon McDowell's pioneering operation. Appropriately-for McDowell had once served as its postmaster-Danville's post office was the first to sell a new 4? commemorative stamp.
A thousand old wives' tales hold that there is a close connection between a woman's illnesses during pregnancy and the health of her baby, but medical researchers were long unable to prove anything except the damaging effects of German measles in the first three months of gestation...
Dr. Burney's article did not reach the A.M.A.'s Chicago office until Nov. 2. This was well after the Reader's Digest had hit the stands with its November issue showing (from tests by a reputable private laboratory) that several brands of filtered cigarettes, marketed since...
If man's diet were determined by strictly scientific considerations, what would it cost him to live? Brown University researchers fed the problem to an IBM 650 electronic computer, last week reported the answer: 21? a day. Caring nothing for variety or any other of life's spices...
But who was this derelict aboard the derelict, and what was he doing there? Why had the crew deserted the ship when she was obviously in no danger of sinking? Why had one man been left aboard, left for dead in the No. 4 hold? Who had set fire to...