Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says President James Bryant Conant of Harvard, science will have found a safe contraceptive that can be taken by mouth and the world will have a remedy for overpopulation. Last week British researchers reported an early lead in that direction. They had made an extract from a common countryside herb called gromwell (Lithospermum officinale) and given it first to female rats. The rats stopped ovulating. When the gromwell was stopped, they promptly resumed ovulating and proved, by becoming pregnant, that their fertility had been only temporarily arrested...
...Money (Tues. 10 p.m., NBC). New quiz show starring Comedian Herb Shriner...
Also sidelined with injuries last week were: Herb Collins, Bill Monteith, Sam Dyock, Ron Messer, Art Pappas, Hank Rate, Harvey Rate, Harvey Popell, Tim Anderson, Ron Noonan, Tony Caimi and Lee Markoff...
...Manhattan College's Lindy Remigino, who won the 100-meter dash in a photo-finish with Jamaica's Herb McKenley and Britain's Emanuel McDonald-Bailey. Time for all three sprinters...
Alcoholics & Snobs. South Carolina's Democrat Joseph Bryson, a Baptist and an avid joiner (Mason, Shriner, Woodman, Redman, Junior Merrymaker, Moose and United Commercial Traveler), admitted that what he liked on TV was Fred Waring, Herb Shriner and "rassling." What he didn't like was the "wife-swapping" indicated by the introduction of a TV star (unnamed) which included the information that the star's current wife was "so-and-so." At this news, Colorado's Chenoweth again sat up and took notice. "Shows the actual exchange of wives, does it?" he asked intently. "Is that...