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What have you done! I casually mentioned on the air the other day that TIME had referred to Ray Peterson's recording of Tell Laura I Love Her as one of the sickest of the current crop of sick songs. Since that moment, I have been swamped with irate letters and postcards, and threatening phone calls. I have been commissioned by the teenagers and the adults of Richmond, Ashland, Highland Springs, and surrounding towns to tell TIME to drop dead...
Tell Laura I Love Her (Ray Peterson; RCA Victor). The newest and by all odds the sickest of the sick teen-age songs describes a young driver who enters a stock-car race to get money for a wedding ring and. as he is slowly dying in flames, warbles: "Tell Laura I love her/Tell Laura I need her/Tell Laura not to cry/My love for her will never die." With Singer Peterson bleating expressively through his tears, the record looks uncomfortably like a top seller...
...saddened the heart of many a child by killing his pet pup, is the agent tested by Dr. John M. Adams of the University of California at Los Angeles. Nearly everybody has antibodies against distemper -surprising, because no human being is known to have caught distemper even from the sickest dog. Dr. Adams reasoned that perhaps the virus is close kin to one that causes human disease, contains the same antigen (antibody-stimulating component). He tried a safety-tested distemper vaccine against respiratory infections in a California institution, and it was a flop. But three years later the institution...
Press association teleprinters chattered last week with seemingly momentous news from Boston: "Discovery of a mold extract which seeks and destroys fresh blood clots in minutes ... can be used safely on the sickest patient . . . credited with furnishing quick relief for sufferers of heart attacks." Editors front-paged the claims, which had been announced by the Massachusetts Heart Association...