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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playgoers may be fascinated to watch its serious and its stagy elements fighting all evening for the upper hand, and ending in a draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...biggest class of germs against which no drug (antibiotic or otherwise) has been found effective: the viruses. Rutgers has just added a virologist, Dr. Vincent Groupe, to Waksman's staff. Thus far, Groupe can report no progress, but neither can other virologists; the job may take years. But Waksman is sure that some day, somewhere, something will be found to ease the horror of poliomyelitis and the nuisance of the common cold. That something may well be an unknown microorganism fighting its battle in the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...salary is now $10,000, and he may get a percentage of the gross take. *Microbiologists would prefer that laymen call each organism by its right name, but in the privacy of their own laboratories, they often call them all "bugs." *From the Greek for "white twisted fungus." *With nearly all microorganisms, a species is made up of many strains which may differ as much as a German shepherd differs from a Pekingese in the dog species. *Marketed by Parke, Davis & Co., which financed Burkholder's work, under the trade name Chloromycetin (pronounced Chloromy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...other private job: a director of New York Life Insurance Co. from Jan. 9, 1935 to May...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Room Service | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Poland. From a statesman, such reasoning seems to applaud the bankruptcy of statesmanship. Stalin was capable of straighter talk on the subject. Said he at Potsdam: "A freely elected government in any of these [eastern European] countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow." U.S. readers may wonder why the U.S. delegation could not have guessed that as well as Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yalta Revisited | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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