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...already come from Manhattan's Raymond Loewy, who once called the egg the "functionally perfect shape, the symbol of progress." Abandoning the egg for some-thing closer to a motorboat, French-born Designer Loewy would fashion his car of light, unpainted alloys, plastics, nonreflecting glass. With a liquid-cooled engine in the rear, he would leave the present-day hood as a concession to popular taste, a storage space for tires, battery, air-conditioner. The undercarriage would be faired-in (streamlined). Doors and windows would operate by push button. It is possible that present auto manufacturers would not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Johnny Comes Riding Home | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Investigators reported that the doctor's treatment for all cases, from ulcers to neuroses, was the same: several hundred patients gathered three times a week at his clinic, lined up before a "cocktail window," received a brownish liquid in a paper cup. The mixture was called A.T.O.P., for reasons unknown, and contained the powerful drugs chloral hydrate, bromides, digitalis. After drinking this potion (which often made them giddy, set them a-warbling), patients proceeded in line to "treatment" by Dr. Cowles. New patients were examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Body & Mind Raid | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...cellulose-digesting bacteria are of the aciduric group, akin to the Lactobacillus acidophilus of Bulgarian buttermilk, which (some scientists think) helps un usual numbers of Balkan rustics to fill themselves full of years. Taken in liquid form, the bacterial cultures taste like chocolate syrup. They become permanently established among the intestinal flora in about a month. Cost: $2 per person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let 'Em Eat Grass | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Alternating with the Indians every year, the Ski Club acts as week-end host this year, but it will be the Hanoverians who throw the festive pre-game party and liquid bouts in the ski Cabin Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Club Will Race Dartmouth on Sunday | 4/15/1942 | See Source »

...colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns and trace on them the remaining lines of Nicolas' drawing. Then the various colored pieces are reassembled and glued with liquid wax to a large, trans parent plate-glass pane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cleveland's New Windows | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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