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Even this poke-in-the-nose failed to draw a retraction from O'Donnell, whose unsubstantiated blockbuster was a Jcruel blow to the WAACs and the war effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O'Donnell's Foul | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...consisted of some amazing X-ray transparencies. Each one appeared fuzzy to the naked eye, like seeing double. But through polaroid eyeglasses each transparency was a clear, three-dimensional, stereoscopic view into a body. A pencil moving over a film of the chest seemed to move among the ribs, poke the heart. Three dentist brothers, Edward, Milton, Harold Klein, perfected the method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Needles from Haystacks | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Such was the straight-faced advice sent out last week by the Department of Agri culture. The department listed wild plants which can be put to a "useful purpose": lamb's-quarters, plantain, poke, purslane, wild chicory, dock. They all taste good with vinegar or cooked in bacon fat, said the department; they contain vitamins A and B, and iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: A la Nebuchadnezzar | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Intelligent Gentlemen. Eckstein's personal observations poke searchlight beams into corners of the Japanese psyche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sketches of a People | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Alone Among the Roots. Away from the mike, the youngest Quiz Kid has a normal childish disdain for the silly questions grownups ask him. Last week he bore the marks of a recent poke in the teeth given him by one of his Chicago playmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Midget Euclid | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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