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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The whale in question was no Moby Dick (a monstrous albino sperm whale) but a finback measuring 44 ft. 2 in. and weighing an estimated 50 tons. It was no Moby Dick by temperament either: far from eluding pursuit, it seemed to seek out Dr. White. No fewer than five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beat | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

It took until 1957 for the FDA to figure out by increasingly sensitive tests, that there is a minute residue of stilbestrol in other parts of caponettes than the head -20 to 30 parts per billion in the liver and 35 to 100 in the skin fat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Saratoga (adapted from Edna Ferber's novel Saratoga Trunk; music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer) is a gorgeously decked-out period musical, moving from a plush New Orleans in the '80s to a palmy Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The handsome sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The chief trouble is once again book trouble, and the sense of a period musical in treatment as well as subject matter. Saratoga tells a tale of two young fortune seekers: an illegitimate New Orleans beauty and a ranchman gypped out of his inheritance, who unromantically team up to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The Fighting Cock (adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lucienne Hill) reveals an Anouilh more balanced than bitter in mood, and more effective as a philosophe than as a playwright. His play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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