Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very succinct and clear abstract of my treatment of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) with 2½% ether [TIME, Nov. 17] has produced a panicky deluge of letters from diabetics. For the sake of my peace of mind and the self-assurance and relief of hundreds of diabetics, please note that...
...moviemakers, feeling the cold hands of businessmen curbing their artistic impulses, had deserted him for Sir Alexander Korda (TIME, Nov. 17), who is concentrating on prestige films. Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) and Powell & Pressburger (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) had already gone. British critics had begun to note the deterioration in Rank films; recent films, said the Sunday Times, ranged from "mediocre to ghastly...
...stoop-shouldered doctor hurried down the steps to a dingy basement, borne of his Negro patients were already waiting for him. An ex-G.I. fidgeted in his chair, muttering: "Daid. . . . He's daid." A woman waited stonily, clutching her daughter with one hand and a note from school in the other. The doctor briskly pulled on a white coat and shot a rapid greeting at his youngest patient, a moon-faced ten-year-old: "Hello, Midgie, I hear you got a new football for your birthday." The boy grinned...
...long been known that many gases and vapors transparent to visible light absorb certain wavelengths of infra-red This fact is used industrially in identifying gases; chemists shoot infra-red rays through a vapor and note what wavelengths are absorbed, and how strongly. Why, reasoned Beck & Miles, should the numan nose not do the same...
Foote, Cone & Belding's Ralph B. Austrian sounded an even more ominous note on the loss in radio listeners. The gist of his news: Television sets are wooing away from radio a rapidly increasing part of its audience and establishing "a new trend in listening habits. The final effect will be a reduction in radio billings." The cash thus freed, thought Austrian, would soon begin to flow into television, for which he saw a bright future. By the end of next year, he predicted, television would command an audience of 4,500,000 with 750,000 television sets...