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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire around dawn drove Musicomedy Writers Herbert & Dorothy Fields (Let's Face It, Annie Get Your Gun) out of their 18-room house in Brewster, N.Y. Some $15,000 worth of furnishings went up in flames, but rural firemen managed to save the house: the Fields had a full swimming pool left over from summer...
Freezing the body kills a man. But freezing a gangrenous leg may save a man's life. When this discovery was first announced five years ago-by Drs. Lyman W. Grossman and Frederick M. Allen of New York City-many a medico was shocked. But the two doctors persisted in their chilling experiments. Last week they reported progress in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
When she first thought up the idea, Carol Moody, 31, was so sure she had a natural that she decided to make the money and let others do the work. As sponsors, she went after newspaper publishers; that automatically took care of publicity. To save herself further trouble, she decided to let the eager little students themselves think up the questions for the program...
...This] is much more than a fantastic possibility." Gas masks? Useless. Deep underground shelters with efficient air filters might save a few people. But when the wind had passed, the survivors would doubtless find that all animals and plants had died with the unsheltered humans...
Science may yet save the musk deer. Perfume chemists in modern laboratories are working hard to perfect a synthetic musk odor. Meanwhile, the deer himself (carrying his hairy, walnut-sized pouch at the base of his abdomen) will try to outrun his pursuers...