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Nowadays cheerleading is as much a part of the football show as passing and kicking. Last week, while the cream of the 1939 crop of U. S. footballers wondered whether they would be picked for one of the hundreds of All-America teams (chosen by sportswriters, Greek restaurants, department stores, cinema producers), the cream of college cheerleaders had the same worry: whether they would be picked for this year's All-America cheering squad, to be announced Christmas week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Muni), who deserts the Spanish Loyalists when he sees their cause "betrayed" and doomed, and his own patrol about to be annihilated. To him this is riot cowardice, but the common sense of disillusionment; to his companions it still seems better to die for an ideal than live without one. Afterwards, though still believing he was right, King is burdened with a sense of guilt. The play does not, however (after the fashion of Conrad's Lord Jim), trace out the psychological consequences of King's desertion; instead, it brings him into a world of gangsters where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Small, round-faced Dr. Louis Wirth, University of Chicago sociologist, declared that urbanism-the big city problem-enters into almost every major problem of modern society. "Our cultures are still many, but our civilization is one. The city is the symbol of that civilization. We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

University told a similar tale, one which may possibly prove as significant to medical history as Dr. Mellon's. As violent as the streptococcus is the pus-forming Staphylococcus germ, which causes boils, invades hearts, lungs, joints, kidneys, often fatally. To combat the Staphylococcus sulfanilamide and its offspring sulfapyridine were tried, but with few encouraging results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Staphylococcus Conquered? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Chemical Co. at Newark, N. J. last year created a new sulfanilamide product: sulfamethylthiazol. Biologists of Winthrop Chemical Co.'s Albany Laboratories fed the drug to mice infected with Staphylococcus germs, found it far more powerful, far less toxic than sulfapyridine. But even after hundreds of trials, no one dared experiment on human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Staphylococcus Conquered? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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