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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, five years later, the paper is being published (with no comment from the Government) in the Journal of Immunology. Drs. Theodor Rosebury and Elvin Kabat originally wrote it to scare Washington officials; now, they say, they are publishing it to scare the public. Set down with a kind of desperate, scientific calm, the report would make as pleasantly alarming reading as any outrageous fictional chiller-except for the fact that it might all come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death in Convenient Bottles | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Anxiety dreams caused by emotional frustrations sometimes scare people to death, said Dr. Sylvan H. Robertson of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital. In such dreams, the heart and blood vessels "become surcharged and remain in a state of tension." Possible result: a heart attack while sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take It Easy | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...President had to scare Congress to make them take the momentous step he was asking them to take. But once that result is achieved, for God's sake stop talking about checking Russia, and talk about rehabilitating Greece and giving every Greek a fair chance. If you don't do this, every loafer and crook in Greece will consider himself the ally of the American General Staff-to be fed and kept in style by. the American taxpayer. . . . See to it that the money is used for the reconstruction of [Greece] and does not get into the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Wallace expressed his faith in the "purifying effect of American democracy" to wash away press and political distortions of the present hysteria wave, which he likened to the days of A. Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare. "The truth eventually comes out," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace Returns, Cites 'Interest in Peace' In Europe | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

...Before leaving the capital, the President had a new vaccination as a precaution against Manhattan's smallpox scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Everything's Lovely | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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