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...brown sugar, expose their bodies to alternate yellow and magenta light; the yellow light was also effective for worms, magenta for heart disease, indigo for pain. Purple would decrease sex desire, scarlet increase it. Gonorrhea could be cured, in early cases, by green or turquoise, in later cases by lemon; syphilis, by two weeks of green plus four weeks of lemon. No matter what was the matter with them, said the gadget's inventor, patients should sleep with their heads pointed north, give up meat, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco, and stare at the Spectro-Chrome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lights Out | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Said Feller last week: "I won the first two games without having my best stuff. That may be a good omen." But the Indians have only one other first-rate pitcher, eager Bob ("Squeeze") Lemon. Boudreau's pitching prescription for the season: "Feller and Lemon, two days of rain, and then Feller and Lemon again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red-Hot Indians | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...bellicose look of his tousled mop of hair and two-day growth of beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhh-damn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...whether they rewrite English A themes for editorials three times a week, mix lemon juice in the photo developer, sell protection to hapless shopkeepers, or like the write summaries of squash tourneys, CRIMSON candidates all must go through a competition...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Tough Crimson Competition Chisels Candidate into Experienced Editor | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...fare so well. Big, jovial John Steelman, the President's special assistant, had unsuspectingly come dressed in white shirt and pants. As Truman chuckled gleefully, Steelman was laid out on the tin "operating table," prodded with an electrically charged knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven blackened sailors ducked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No. I Pollywog | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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