Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also published last week in book form. Steinbeck's theory: a short, meaty novel (e.g., Of Mice and Men) can be transformed into a play by simply treating descriptive passages as stage directions and dialogue as actors' lines...
...every child knows-and as readers of The New Yorker are regularly reminded-there lives, in that gloomy, crumbling mansion on the other side of any town, a happy family of unmitigated fiends. They are poor as cemetery mice, but honest as the night is long, and like true soldiers of the great Damnation Army, they darken their corner of town with all the vices that the Devil-with some help from a man named Charles Addams-can conceive...
Instead of exposing himself to deadly snakes to test the serum, Philpot bought rattlesnake and moccasin venom in powdered form. Then he went to work on mice. He found that a mouse could be injected with 2½ to 3½ times the lethal dose of viper venom, and still survive if promptly given an injection of king snake serum. Better yet, he found that his king snake extract was three to four times more effective than a commercial preparation made, by a far more difficult process, from the blood of venom-injected horses...
...current Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. They did not expect the work to found a major business in snakebite cures: the U.S. has only about 2,000 cases of snake bite a year. But there seemed to be no reason why men, as well as mice, should not benefit from the king snake's natural immunity...
...Five Mice. But what day, and where? The West's experts on the Communist mind try to imagine themselves in the Kremlin and look around the world from there, trying to see the world through Stalin's cat's eyes. The main mice in sight: Indo-China, Iran, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany...