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...Dead Pigeon by Lenard Kantor is a three-character melodrama that is constructed like a superhighway: the audience is never in any doubt where the play is going; it is beautifully landscaped by Joan Lorring in various stages of undress, and -though everything moves along briskly enough-there is a certain sensation of monotony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Roger. In Chicago, the day after a thief stole his 37 prize homing pigeons, Fred Semro was happy to find that seven of the birds had returned, then read a note attached to one pigeon's leg: "You'll never see the rest again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Gathering dust in some Capitol Hill pigeon hole is a bill that could have prevented the Harry Dexter white fiasco, and saved the present Administration much embarrassment. Written by New York Representative Jacob Javitts, the bill would establish uniform rules for conducting investigations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Curbing | 11/17/1953 | See Source »

...Massachusetts General, Dr. Lipmann did most of his work with an unlikely material: pigeon livers. "You have to follow your nose," he says. "You don't map it out. You try one experiment, then another, and bring some sense into it." This method led him, by 1945, to the isolation of coenzyme A, one of the most important trigger chemicals in the body. Dr. Lipmann has shown that his coenzyme is a factor in the body's production of vital substances such as fatty acids and steroid hormones. Some researchers hope that it may help to track down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Co-Workers & Coenzymes | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...clumsy punch, but Basilio cuts easily, and when he earned a shot at the world championship, the experts thought him easy meat for a slashing hitter like Cuba's Champion Kid Gavilan. Last week, fighting in his home town of Syracuse, Underdog Basilio was nobody's pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Night for Carmen | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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