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Motherhood has been getting safer & safer for the past 100 years-ever since Lister introduced antiseptic methods and Semmelweis showed how to check the spread of childbed fever. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported last week that in 1949 the U.S. set a proud record by becoming the first large nation with a maternal death rate of less than one per 1,000 live births. In 1948 the rate was 1.2, and in 1933 (before the sulfas and antibiotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Safer Motherhood | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...Democrats again won the eight contested Southern seats as anticipated. Lister Hill, Alabama's senior senator, defeated Independent Democrat candidate Admiral John C. Crommelin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democrats Keep Congress; Lucas, Tydings, Myers Lose | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

...Alabama, retired Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, the man who touched off the Navy's revolt against unification, was running as an independent against Administration-stalwart Senator Lister Hill, and doing his best to blast the Truman Administration clean out of the water. He was conceded the votes of some diehard States' Righters, but no chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Pot Boils, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Rams, last year's New England Intercollegiate champs and New England's leading cross-country team for the last three years, had already run in two meets, which included a win over Springfield. Although Ram Ray Lister won the varsity race, and Dick Ahern of Holy Cross was second, the Crimson won by bunching its finishers, placing third, fifth, seventh, eighth, and eleventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Nip Favored Rams, Holy Cross in Opening Meet | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

Dave Gregory was the first Harvard finisher, followed by Dave Cairns, Paul Judy, Dick White, and Captain John Pankey. Lister's winning time over the four-mile course was 22:48.2, with Gregory's, 23:02. The meet was extremely close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Nip Favored Rams, Holy Cross in Opening Meet | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

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