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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Study was founded, on a special University fund in 1938, it moved into its present home. The building, which once contained athletic facilities, was remodeled, and offices replaced the squash courts. A swimming pool in the rear is now used by a drama group for rehearsals, with the Study's permission...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

...disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Souvenir | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...there is a difference between men and women, and it moves painfully along on this material until the end. There is a difference, though a small one, admits Katherine Hepburn. "Vive la difference," shouts Spencer Tracy as he closes the curtains on the old four poster. Then everybody goes home...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Adam's Rib | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...owners driving home for Christmas can meet riders going to the same place though the Travel Introduction Bureau opening today in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Travel Exchange Will Start Today | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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