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* One of Britain's most famous university M.P.s, Independent A. P. Herbert of Oxford, will not seek another political office in the forthcoming election; he has decided to devote all his propaganda energies to a crusade against low-flying airplanes. * However, if a lunatic casts his vote during a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Law & Lucas-Tooth | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

These three stories dovetailed neatly, and National Affairs Writer Louis Banks, who had covered the State Department himself as a member of TIME'S Washington staff, put them together for the early Christmas closing. TIME would be on the newsstands the following Thursday, and the editors fully expected to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Doctors themselves were mostly to blame for making the U.S. a nation of laxative-takers. A generation ago, they spread the word, with the help of patent-medicine advertisers, that waste matter retained in the colon causes self-poisoning. Current medical belief denies this. Furthermore, most so-called constipation is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Bulk | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

The latest bird who is matching his powers of endurance against this one-button bandit is attempting to grow fat, according to latest results, by poker-facedly beating a tattoo of 63,000 pecks in 13 steady hours. The time interval that the bird is working is being lengthened, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mem Hall Gambling Den Is for the Birds | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

A new wrinkle in an old face, "The Long Wait" spans the brief interval between an impending automobile collision and the death of one of its occupants. Author Daniel Ellsberg takes his central character through a dreaming flashback and unconquerable optimism before the car hurtles off the road and overturns...

Author: By Parker Hayden, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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