Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...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...
...Hope It's Poison." The argument rolled on until it was too late to vote that day: Bob Taft had announced that he didn't want a vote after 5 p.m. because he had to be home at 5:30 for a tea in honor of Mamie Eisenhower. At the Tafts' red brick Victorian house in Georgetown, men who had been snarling at one another over the Bohlen case met, chatted and sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor...
Rash Venture. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Store Executive Charles DeMore good-naturedly helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...