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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The art of wrestling dates back to earliest civilization. It is the one sport which never disappeared entirely from the earth and, along with running and jumping, it was the most natural form of exercise because it involved on equipment and provided an invigorating means of building muscles and developing...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

Doctors themselves were mostly to blame for making the U.S. a nation of laxative-takers. A generation ago, they spread the word, with the help of patent-medicine advertisers, that waste matter retained in the colon causes self-poisoning. Current medical belief denies this. Furthermore, most so-called constipation is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Bulk | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

For Brandeis' 247 freshmen and sophomores (the school will not graduate a class until 1952), there are broad basic courses labeled social science, natural science, and humanities, as well as a growing menu of electives, e.g., oral communication, Hebrew, a survey of style and structure in music. To teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: University with a Mission | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Author Vittorini, who was a Fascist in his youth, wrote In Sicily in 1937, when he was in the process of becoming a Communist. That may explain the midsection rhetoric. Only a fine natural gift explains the rest-and the best-of his story.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cure for Silvestro | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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