Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the only genuinely popular slogan that went through Germany immediately after the capitulation was Schluss mit der Soldatenspielerei (No more of this soldier business...
Convention delegates showed plenty of interest in vagotomy, the nerve-cutting operation developed by Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26), which is currently popular among ulcer specialists. But even that new hope was dampened by Dr. Russell S. Boles of the Philadelphia General Hospital. Said he: "While it is too soon to form conclusions about this operation, it is not too soon to . . . protest against . . . a mass experiment on human beings that is fraught with potentially serious and permanent disabilities." Dr. Boles's warning: the vagus operation, which partially paralyzes the stomach, may produce diarrhea...
Best anti-lamprey measure would be to drum up commercial demand. Lampreys were once a popular delicacy: Henry I of England is reputed to have died from a surfeit of them. Dr. Van Oosten is checking a rumor that Italians in Bessemer, Pa. are lamprey enthusiasts. If a market can be found, enterprising Great Lakes fishermen will gladly exterminate the lampreys free of charge...
Died. Julio Tello, 67, Peru's No. 1 archeologist; of an unknown disease that popular legend attributes to germs picked up in old Indian tombs; in Lima, Peru. Fellow experts often disagreed with dour little Tello's historical conclusions, but fellow Indians hailed him for his favorite one: that they are not members of an inferior race...
...Government has given top paper priorities to books and newspapers, determines how many copies of each book are to be printed and where distributed. Reader demand by itself can no more create a best-seller in Russia than public tastes can alter the content of the food ration. But popular writers sometimes get spectacular receptions, which indicate that Glavlit can guess wrong. For example, a 15,000-copy printing of Valentin Kateyev's Son of the Regiment lasted just three hours in Moscow bookshops...