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...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Friend of Ghosts | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Also expected to see action in the backfield; blocking-back Tony DiNatale, tailback Gordon Marlow, wingback Tom Lawson, fullback Steve Marglin...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Freshman Eleven Will Seek Win From Weak Yale Team | 11/18/1955 | See Source »

...Henri, Sloan, Shinn, Luks, Glackens, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast and Arthur Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Lusty Years | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...question of colds and other upper respiratory infections brought Dr. Lawson to his final blast against the overuse of antibiotics. More than 90% of children's fevers and respiratory and gastrointestinal infections are caused by viruses, he declared, and antibiotics are of no use against viruses. "Yet many physicians cannot refrain from scattering antibiotics far and wide because 1) the family expects it, 2) it won't do any harm. 3) it might do some good, or 4) you can't tell which infection is viral and which bacterial . . . The pressure to 'do something is always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Needless Child Doctoring | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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