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...plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with his usual hen-tracky pen drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...colleagues, and druggists refused to fill their prescriptions. When their patients died a few were even mobbed. Today there are almost 200,000 men doctors in the U. S., only 7,500 women doctors. It is still very difficult for a woman to enter medical school, or for a "hen medic" to get hospital and university connections. Yet in spite of their handicaps, a number of women doctors in the U. S. have made remarkable contributions to the progress of medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Women Doctors | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...market frogs, terrapin. Everybody knows that chickens like worms. Dr. Oliver has devised what he calls an "intensive range" poultry diet-sprouted grain mixed with worms and worm-egg capsules. Fed on this at a cost of one-tenth of a cent a day, pullets start laying Grade A hen's eggs before they are five months old. Wizard Oliver also sells worm casts for fertilizer, and a liquid nutrient (for flower growers) which is made by letting water drip through worm casts in boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Praise for the Earthworm | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...examples of distortion, it assumes greater importance. If this poll is any sort of a weapon, it is a boomerang. And if all those opposed to American intervention in the present war are "radicals, cynics, and pacifists," then the editors of Defense have laid an egg in their own hen-house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACKFIRE | 12/19/1940 | See Source »

Stumped by a question directed at him when he guested for Information, Please, fat, choleric, brain-trusting Defense Commissioner Leon ("Leon the Hen") Henderson reddened, mumbled: "The man who submitted that question can receive a $50 reward from a certain friend of mine, who wanted to see me embarrassed." The bounty-setter: William S. Knudsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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