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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seed is a novel that started badly. At least Author William March thought so. When he was a third of the way through, he tossed it away and started all over again. Readers with a low tolerance for pure horror may well wish he had not tried a second time. For The Bad Seed is an authentic chiller; not a member of the murder mystery species, but a novel about seemingly quite ordinary people with terror built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Child | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...SEED (247 pp.}-William March-Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Child | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...room with the safety rules and precautions of a radioisotope laboratory, 2 cc. of fluid containing live polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Randolph W. Seed: Freshman Soccer; 150 1b. Crew; Varsity lightweight Crew; House Hockey; Harvard Yearbook Publications; Pre-Med Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eighty-five Seniors Contest for Permanent Class Committee Offices | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

...prisons. "I was assigned to work as a physician," he said, "[but it] was just sham practicing, because there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Iron Heel | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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