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...Hyde Park in such splendid carriages or on such fine horses that the popular euphemism for rich prostitutes of the time was "pretty horse-breakers." One, Lizzie Howard, became the mistress of Napoleon III, and a French countess, and died a rich woman. Cora Pearl (born Crouch and no kin to Author Pearl), one of the few prostitutes to win mention in the Dictionary of National Biography, also made good in Paris. The book's title is provided by Catherine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Improper Victorians | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Made from an organism found in voles (British field mice). This bacillus (Mycobacterium muris) is a close kin to the human-type tubercle bacillus, but does not cause disease in man. The question before this test was whether it could confer immunity against TB (as cowpox does against smallpox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vaccination for TB | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Rich, bighearted, wackish Uncle Daniel Ponder has. among other benefactions, married a pretty little birdbrain (Sarah Marshall) and brought her-with her love of household gadgets-to a house without electricity, where she dies, at length, of fright during a thunderstorm. Prodded by an ambitious lawyer, her back-country kin charge Uncle Daniel with murdering her. The trial-of a modern-day Uncle Toby-calls to mind the trials in Pickwick and Alice in Wonderland. With cousins on the jury, kids overrunning the witness box, refreshments being served, Uncle Daniel first disappearing and then hiring the prosecution lawyer to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...enough, only to have it destroyed by insulinase, an enzyme made by the liver. Injections of insulin, which have prolonged and saved countless lives for 33 years, simply supply outside insulin. A more logical treatment, Dr. Mirsky thinks, would be to block the insulinase. Both the new drugs-close kin to the sulfa drugs-work by poisoning the insulinase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope for Diabetics | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Magnetic Pole | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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