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...Federal Trade Commission over one word: liver. The FTC first tried in 1943 to get the "Liver"' dropped from Carter's Little Liver Pills. The pills, said the agency, did not help a sluggish liver, would not necessarily relieve that ''worn-out, sluggish, allin, listless, tired, stuffy, cranky, peevish, bogged-down" feeling. After 142 hearings in six cities (and 11,000 pages of testimony), the FTC issued a cease-and-desist order, only to have it tossed out by the U.S. Court of Appeals. After an appeal to the Supreme Court, which ordered further hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Word | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...more satisfying a child's life and the more intelligent he is, the less he views TV. Even heavy viewing does not necessarily make most children more aggressive or listless, or discourage them from reading or studying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Through a Child's Eyes | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...When Betty, five months old, was brought to the agency, she was so underweight and listless that she was unable to muster a good cry even when she was hungry. Betty was found in the street by a city employee...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Comfort and Joy | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...from the University of Vienna, he preferred music, came to the U.S. in 1925 on the invitation of Leopold Stokowski. His talent for developing orchestras, which even exceeded his art as a conductor, brought prestigious results in Los Angeles, Cleveland and New York, where Rodzinski took over the listless Philharmonic in 1943. Considering himself hamstrung by management, he stormily quit the nation's top orchestral job four years later, went to Chicago, where, after a year of feuds with management, he was fired. Freelance since then, Rodzinski triumphed last year with a brilliant Tristan und Isolde at Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Princeton freshmen have had an on-and-off year. They scored an impressive victory over highly-rated Columbia. But the freshman Tigers' coach, Jake McCandless, called their play in the Penn game, which they dropped 14 to 13, "listless, uninspired, and generally poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Football To Face Princeton | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

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