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After the rats had been trained to ignore light and noise, they were put in pens built to resemble such favorite rat hangouts as kitchens or corncribs. There, in front of the cameras, they performed their normal dramas of robbery, love and cannibalism. Rat mothers suckled their young, and sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Peek at Peekers | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

The fast-exit type seems to have learned his exit on the vaudeville stage. He often manages to thrust his notes into his briefcase and back toward the door while still continuing an uninterrupted flow of closing phrases. Some teachers have been known to master this exit so effectively that...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 5/5/1950 | See Source »

Two things had long annoyed Harry Truman about his weekly press conferences. One was that, with as many as 250 reporters jammed into his office, it was sometimes hard for him to tell whether a New York Times or Daily Worker man was asking a question, and the President thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Carpet | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

There was no return-only a long silence. Next day a score of U.S. planes swooped onto a Danish airfield to begin a needlepoint-fine search through the squalls and fog of the Baltic Sea. Danish and Swedish planes and boats pitched in to help. It was a nerve-racking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: Nonstop to Copenhagen | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Dr. London and Dr. Caprio have found that the deviations from what modern society considers normal are legion. Almost any common object or experience, they believe, can be tinged with sexual excitement for some individual. Prosecutors have long known that firebugs are often unbalanced and get sexual satisfaction from watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Abnormal | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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