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Among the many mysteries of tuberculosis, none is greater than the inability of doctors on opposite sides of the Atlantic to agree on the value of BCG vaccine (TIME, Dec. 25, 1950) as a TB preventive. Medical men in Europe, and especially Scandinavia, look at the reports on their BCG programs and see "proof" that the vaccine is effective in conferring immunity. Doctors in the U.S. look at the same reports (supposedly scientific, and therefore objective) and sneer: it's no good. In this crossfire the British stayed neutral for years, finally started a searching BCG test of their...
...folk schools through which most of the program operates, average 100 students There are 300 throughout Scandinavia, each determining its own program, but the major emphasis in all is history, literature and social sciences with particular emphasis on Scandinavian achievements in these fields...
...York, however, the Union Tours Inc., also said that it had arranged tours to Russia, and that its first one was leaving Dec. 19, with successive ones departing the third Monday in every month. The tours will be almost entirely spent in Russia, with a brief stop in Scandinavia. In all, the groups will be in Leningrad and Moscow for 12 days...
...small, precise work of art with a beginning, middle and end. New York had never experienced anything quite like it. But Marceau,whose career began, nine years ago as a mime in Jean-Louis Barrault's Paris company, has already made triumphal tours in Italy, Western Germany and Scandinavia. By week's end, he was the fashionable thing for New Yorkers to see. He was preparing to move up to Broadway for another two-week run, CBS-TV wanted him for the Ed Sullivan show, but NBC-TV got him first for a Spectacular...
Steaming back into the U.S. after a 4½-month European crusade, Evangelist Billy Graham immediately fired a shot heard across the Atlantic. Said he: "Morals in Scandinavia are very low - particularly sexual morals." His fire was promptly returned. Snapped one of Denmark's own moral crusaders, Lutheran Pastor Boerge Hjerl-Hansen : "Before throwing stones, Graham ought to think twice. After all, he is a citizen of the country where the Kinsey Report was published." ∙∙∙ Discharged from suburban Washing ton's Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he was laid up after his heart attack (TIME, July...