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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penicillin, so miraculously effective against early syphilis that the disease's late, crippling stages need never develop, is also effective in many cases where brain damage results from failure to get prompt treatment, 13 researchers in seven cities reported in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. If the paresis is not too far advanced, 80% of victims can return to work after massive penicillin treatment. In most cases it makes the "fever cure" unnecessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Penicillin for Paresis | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...late, famed Nobel prizewinner Undset (she died in 1949) writes of desperate Norwegian spinsters who are roughly used by all who know them, of babies who bring brief happiness to love-starved households and then sicken and die, of people who hesitate to rescue others for fear of being responsible for the lives they save. The conclusion of each sweetly-sad story is usually damp with tears: Thjodolf ends with its heroine reeling to her bed, where "the weeping came, bitter and burning"; Simonsen ends with its hero on a train speeding away from his loved ones forever: "He wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: North to South | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Torroja (pronounced toe-roe-ha) has long been recognized within a narrow professional circle as a creative engineer whose breathtaking structures are rivaled in Europe only by those of Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi. Even the late Frank Lloyd Wright doffed his porkpie in salute, said, "He has expressed the principles of organic construction better than any engineer I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Art of Structure | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...billion, or $1.7 billion more than the early estimates. Much of the buildup was undoubtedly due to fears of a steel strike. Ward's Automotive Reports cautioned that auto dealer inventories may soon hit an alltime high of 1,000,000 unless production is cut back in late June and July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Picking Up Speed | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill casting a theatrical illusion of life around the idea that life is illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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