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...COMMON COLD. There is no hint yet of either a preventive or a cure for the common cold. Reporting for a University of Illinois team that has made thousands of tests on 2,500 volunteer cold-catchers, Dr. George Gee Jackson suggested that the idea that there is a specific common-cold virus, peculiar to man, had best be abandoned completely. No fewer than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Signposts | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...adopted sister is dissolved in hatred of her race; and even against herself, when she tries to go back to her people. Sexual love and physical violence somewhat confuse the racial issue, but the sex is interpreted with grace and dignity, and the violence with plenty of the old gee-whiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Gee, that's quite an idea! And what did they answer? She: Some take their mothers. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death to Taxes! | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...crowd, since the Lions fielded one of the most multilingual elevens ever seen here. The Crimson's Mudd started the byplay by remarking, "Those Columbia boys are pretty rough. They're from New York City." After a few crunching collisions around the Columbia goal, a Lion player countered, "Gee, fellows. He's a Hahvuhd man." Things were pretty rough for a while...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Captures Ivy Title, Wins Nine Sparsely Attended Games; Bagnoli, Sweeney, Hedreen Stand Out | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

...talk with President Eisenhower, a news conference, and a New England boiled dinner in the Senate dining room, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller stood outside the U.S. Capitol, posed for camera-carrying tourists, shook hands with everybody who passed by, finally swabbed off his brow and sighed: "Gee, does every Governor go through this?" The answer to that one was: No, only those who are running for President-and last week Nelson Rockefeller was running hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Candidate | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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