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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Showing up in Stockholm to get his Nobel Prize for literature (value: $42,601.96), left-leaning Italian Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, sounded more as if he came to be tried rather than honored. He praised the Swedish Academy for its "nonconformist" decision to give him the prize, snarled at those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The whale in question was no Moby Dick (a monstrous albino sperm whale) but a finback measuring 44 ft. 2 in. and weighing an estimated 50 tons. It was no Moby Dick by temperament either: far from eluding pursuit, it seemed to seek out Dr. White. No fewer than five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beat | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

A healthy adult finback should have a slow pulse-only twelve to the minute or less. But by the time the Woods Hole scientists had it wired, the Provincetown specimen was sick at heart, its pulse racing at an uncetacean 27-still only one-third the rate of the excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beat | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The facts: diethylstilbestrol (stilbestrol for short) is a synthetic of the same chemical family as the female sex hormones (estrogens). Physicians prescribe it for some women whose systems need more estrogens, for some men with prostatic cancer. Back in 1947, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized poultry farmers to use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

It took until 1957 for the FDA to figure out by increasingly sensitive tests, that there is a minute residue of stilbestrol in other parts of caponettes than the head -20 to 30 parts per billion in the liver and 35 to 100 in the skin fat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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