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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BRUCE CRAMER Abington, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...bucolic Jacob's Pillow at Lee, Mass., summer dance fans and Manhattan critics crowded into the big wooden barn-studio to see the first performance of aging (57) Ted Shawn's The Dreams of Jacob, with music by Darius Milhaud. Critics found his new five-movement work both a little flat and a little obvious-Jacob dancing unimaginatively with Rachel, wrestling too literally with the dark angel. The verdict: back to the woodshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out of the Woodshed | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...bile of slaughtered oxen (40 head are required for a single daily dose). Merck & Co., who make it, produce only about 1½ ounces a week. Acutely conscious of the desperate demand, research chemists have been plugging away at the problem, trying to speed the process and eventually mass-produce the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Short Cut? | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Slow Burn. In Westerly, R.I., Mrs. Carrie M. Crandall wrote to the city clerk of Worcester, Mass, with a complaint: "About 1889 or 1890 I fell into an open coal chute in front of the Hotel Pleasant...and I think the city should pay me something for my injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat broke. Fumbling old Isaac was crushed, but his tough-willed Quaker wife rose to the occasion. As a girl, Lydia had been a fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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