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...there because we learned that's where all the cute chicks went." The one he met was Buster Burey. "First we decided to get married five years after I graduated, then three, then one, and we finally did just before I started my last semester." (Buster died of lung cancer last February. They had no children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Tension of Change | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...sales message must be rotated in different spots according to the convenience of the program companies who rent TV facilities from the government's watchdog Independent Television Authority. This has caused some heartburn among admen. Groaned one: "Suppose a cigaret commercial gets placed next to a discussion of lung cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Invasion | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there is Millionaire Kilk's man Friday, whose English is by way of Harry Lev as he invokes the Roosevelt "Nude Eel," makes an "important lung-distant call" and regards any setback for John Henry as "a terrible shot to th' boy's nerves cistern." Among them, this unlikely crew make Taurum Topic A all over the globe. The Moslem Brotherhood warns that "Israeli plotters [are] at the bottom of the whole thing," the Russians claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay Dirt | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned out over 200 songs, one of which. The Regular Army, O!, ribbed contemporary recruiting methods so hilariously that one irate Army officer complained that it had grievously curtailed enlistments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up the Mulligan Guards | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...heaviest cigarette smokers, had the eighth highest attack rate but the second lowest rate of increase. (Possible reason: the U.S. may have passed its period of sharpest increase before the 1948-52 period.) Says Copenhagen's Dr. Johannes Clemmesen, noting that Denmark's four-year increase in lung cancer among males was 49%: "The higher a country's cigarette consumption was 20 years ago, the higher is the lung cancer mortality now. These 20 years seem necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Lung Cancer Epidemic | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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