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Personality & TB. Of the countless individuals who harbor tubercle bacilli, some stay healthy while others fall ready victims to tuberculosis. Why the difference? Housing and hygiene, it has become clear, are only partial answers at best. Reporting on a seven-year study of 1,500 TB patients, Seattle Psychiatrist Thomas H. Holmes gave the American College of Chest Physicians in Manhattan new evidence that TB is triggered by emotional causes. Paralleling a similar British study (TIME, Feb. 11), the findings showed that more than 50% of the TB victims came from homes broken by death, divorce or separation before...
...usual rock-'n'-roll line ("But I like all kinds of music"). He also opens a three-week, $30,000 engagement at Manhattan's Roxy before going back to Hollywood to make The Singin' Idol for 20th Century-Fox, with which he has a seven-year contract...
...their children. Once they take a professional interest in a prospective star, the coaches push the child into competition as soon as possible. Young Murray Rose, who won three Olympic gold medals and holds two free-style world records (400 meters and 440 yds.), is, at 18, a seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner of two gold medals at Melbourne and holder of every women's free-style record from 200 meters to 880 yds., was only twelve when she began racing in competition. Dawn Fraser, 20, the Olympic 100 meter free...
...nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
...little to say in Japan's World War II government until 1943, when apprehensive Premier Tojo wanted a moderate Foreign Minister, gave him the post. Railroaded into the war crimes trials by the Soviets (who blamed him for 1938-39 Manchurian border skirmishes), Shigemitsu got a seven-year sentence, served 4½ years, bounced back into politics in 1950, last year negotiated a peace treaty with Russia, a few months later took the bows when Japan was made the null 80th member...