Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, in one of the first books to be published by one of Britain's service chiefs (Bomber Offensive; Collins, Lon don), the pink-mustached, apoplectic "Bomber" flew back over his career, then scattered some incendiaries closer to home...
Chief of the investigation is pink-cheeked Dr. Christopher Howard Andrewes, who in 1933 discovered that ferrets could be infected with influenza, thereby paving the way for experiments which produced a flu vaccine. The common cold is different: only chimpanzees and human beings catch it. Chimpanzees are scarce and costly. Dr. Andrewes decided to call for human volunteers...
...first the Communist Party did the American Veterans Committee a favor: it denounced the A.V.C. as a "bunch of Ivy Leaguers," ordered Communists to bore into the American Legion instead. But the Legion was no pink tea party. A year ago the comrades got orders to countermarch into the A.V.C...
...muds where oil is thought to be formed. His original idea was to study how bacteria modify crude oil (TIME, Dec. 17, 1945). But in 1943, he found in sea mud a comma-shaped bacterium which he named (he was only 38 at the time, and feeling in the pink) desulphovibrio halo-hydrocarbonoclasticus. He put it in a test tube filled with material to simulate a limestone oilsand. Four days later, oil bubbled out of the test tube's mouth. A little later, all the oil in the sand was gone...
Calm & Clean. Ep Hoyt, who climbed from lowly copyreader to publisher of the conservative Portland Oregonian in twelve years, was changing the Post's ways slowly, but in one year he had done a lot. His single concession to the old gaudiness was the Post's pink-paper Page One; otherwise the sideshow days were over. By shaking down the crazy-quilt make-up and flamboyant headlines, Hoyt saved 98 columns of space weekly, used part of them for better news coverage, loaded the rest with advertising. Even though Hoyt had increased its editorial staff from...