Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Must we insist that advertisers, TV producers, magazine writers-in short, everyone who feeds the eyes and ears of the public -present their products (and life) as they really are, or can't we allow them what they've been allowed for so many ye"ars: the right to persuade as well as to describe...
...facts: diethylstilbestrol (stilbestrol for short) is a synthetic of the same chemical family as the female sex hormones (estrogens). Physicians prescribe it for some women whose systems need more estrogens, for some men with prostatic cancer. Back in 1947, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized poultry farmers to use stilbestrol as a chemical castrater for cockerels, by implanting 15 mg. at the base of the skull (so that any residue at killing time would be thrown away with the head). Thus artificially caponized, the fowl gain weight faster than surgically castrated birds. Caponettes made up about...
...past three years, Harvard University has diligently appealed to its alumni in a well-planned drive to raise $82.5 million. Purpose: a lavish refurbishing of Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956). Last month, still about $10 million short of the goal, Harvard went back to wealthy alumni who had already given. Last week the results were announced: out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining...
...begins the story of The Golden Fish, a prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival last May and now a candidate for an Oscar. Altogether the most charming short subject (running time: 18 minutes) in live action that the French film industry has produced since The Red Balloon (TIME, March 18, 1957), Fish swims along at a swift but graceful pace. Director Edmond Sechan tells his story clearly without words-and therefore without tiresome subtitles...
ACROSS PARIS AND OTHER STORIES, by Marcel Aymé. Even in translation, these are the year's best short stories. French Author Aymé tells about seemingly ridiculous or fantastic situations in which ordinary Frenchmen find themselves lost. Wit and clean writing save him-if not his characters-at every turn...