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...eyes glowed hate and impotent fury ... I decided, on second thought, to take him along . . . But he curtly refused to come with us, so, after summoning him three times to get in, there was nothing for it but to shoot him." Four years later, when Hitler bade Rommel poison himself, there was nothing for it but to swallow the poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fox | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Allergists live in a topsy-turvy world where bread is often not the staff of life but an insidious poison, where milk can do the baby more harm than a slug of liquor, where innocent-looking eggs are the secret agents of rebellion, and where mother love can choke a child. Last week the American College of Allergists met in Chicago to hear the latest reports from topsy-turvydom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Allergy Land | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...opener. Kylie Tennant, a 41-year-old Australian woman novelist, appears to know the sharp side of Sydney almost as well as she knows how to turn a sharp sentence. Sample: "The waitresses were elderly, hard women who carried food reluctantly, but in the hope it might poison someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contented Riffraff | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...cortisone experiments which Dr. Hall has been conducting show the new drug's ability to stop "wheezing" among asthma victims, especially young children, and to limit the spread of eczema on the face. It is also useful in treating severe cases of poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Doctors Report Advances | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

...word "opera" would be box-office poison-or so the producers of Composer Marc Blitzstein's Regina decided when it opened on Broadway four years ago. They labeled Regina a "musical drama," and invited the drama critics as well as the music critics to review it. The drama critics, whose notices are the ones that count at the Broadway box office, came and shook their heads; Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes seemed to them an unnecessary intrusion on a fine play. Regina ran for 56 performances, then gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Comeback | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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