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...Quack Monologue. The current Satevepost collection (No. 5 in a series that has been appearing since 1946) lacks the work of such distinguished old-time Post regulars as John P. Marquand, Guy Gilpatric and Clarence Budington Kelland. But its breezy, lightweight stories are done by expert literary carpenters, e.g., Gerald Kersh and Steve McNeil, who know the formula perfectly. Moreover, the collection makes no claim to being the best literature of this or any other year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Americas | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Salves for "curing" cancer of the breast have long been among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From the Autumn Crocus | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...original Dr. Gubbins. ace quack of Fleet Street. Here are two of his replies to readers with just enough strength to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Doc Gubbins | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Septuagenarian Vic Shaw to tell the intimate story of her life as one of Chicago's best-known madams. (She sneeringly told Norma she was such a "little cracker you wouldn't be no good in a house.") Last summer Norma went after Chicago's quack doctors and had everything from electric vibrators to "atom water" prescribed for her imaginary ailments ; one of her "doctors" is now awaiting trial. That was the only time she was frightened. Said she: "Those places were horrible . . . even the injection needles were dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Woman in Scarlet | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...marriages broke up quickly. He wrote: "All women hate Buddhas, maltreat, disturb, humiliate, annoy them, with the hatred of inferiors, because they themselves can never become Buddhas. On the other hand they have an instinctive sympathy for servants, male and female, beggars, dogs, especially mangy ones. They admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature [and] pedlars of wooden spoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppa Could See in the Dark | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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