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...wings, and never seen, is a devil ex machina, Simmo, a man who strip-mines simple souls like Bentley. Buzo tells us that the meek do not in herit the earth, and that the power-brutes who do pocket only cinders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Aussie Absurdist | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...fill a vacancy to be created by the retirement on July 1 of Senior Managing Director John H. Loudon (TIME cover, May 9, 1960). The top job, however, will remain in traditional hands: succeeding Loudon, 59, will be another Dutch oilman, Managing Director Luitzen Brouwer, 54. Spaght will in herit one of Loudon's titles: chairman of U.S. Shell. To take over the American firm as Spaght's successor, Shell named Richard C. McCurdy, 56, an Iowa-born mining engineer who worked up from oilfield roustabout to Shell boss in Venezuela and, since 1953, has been president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: A Rare Kind of Import | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Investigators have at last got a glimmering of what causes cancer. Some people in herit a susceptibility to the disease. But they do not develop cancer unless some susceptible part of the body is unduly irritated by: 1) carcinogenic chemicals, 2) physical agents (X-rays, strong sun light, repeated abrasions as from a jagged tooth), 3) possibly, biological products produced by parasites. Carcinogenic chemicals occur in coal tar, bile acids, female sex hormone. However, no one under stands the exact way in which any of these causes cancer in those individuals who are susceptible to cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Army | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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