Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has about 10 million bald or balding men, leading dermatologists say that the condition has many causes, some known, some not, some curable, some not. For ordinary baldness in which the hair follicles die, they say the best "cure" is a toupee or wig. For baldness due to trichotillomania (the compulsion to tear the hair out), the best cure is to stop tearing the hair...
Once before, at the age of 75, President Hamilton Holt of Florida's coeducational Rollins College had tried to say goodbye. "It is better," he said, "to quit when they want you to stay than to stay when they want you to quit." But the trustees disagreed, persuaded Hamilton Holt to serve one more year. Last week, at commencement time, the year was up. "Prexy" Holt was made an honorary member of the Class of '49, and like his new classmates, he said his last goodbye...
...supercharged President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. shrugged off the Philadelphia experiment because it was transmitted over a telephone line. "It is not broadcast television," he argued, "and it does not indicate that color television for the public is imminent." CBS, which pioneered in color television, had nothing to say...
Chicken or Egg? Rheumatic patients carry in themselves the cure as well as the cause of the disease, say Mayo's Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall. The problem: how to wake up the dormant curative powers in the body. Drs. Hench and Kendall have succeeded in doing it dramatically but temporarily with two hormones: cortisone, originally called compound E,* and ACTH (TIME, May 2). But they were cautious in their report, warned that the hormones are still extremely scarce and that it is too early to tell how safe the long treatment will...
...connection between the psychiatric and medical treatments of rheumatism. The emotions are known to affect the glands that produce hormones, just as they affect the muscles; the hormones, in turn, affect the emotions. In the study of rheumatism, the doctors have not reached the point of being able to say which comes first-the rheumatic chicken or the emotional...