Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial itself was hardly recommended reading for law students. Once, when the demurrers of Defense Attorney Dr. Leon A. Ransom (a Negro) got under the skin of Prosecutor Bumpus, he threatened to wrap a chair around Ransom's head. Judge Ingram often overruled defense objections before they could be completely stated...
...Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians, thrived again. Their current butt: the Military Government. The Am Platzl called its newest...
Developed by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. at the University of Michigan, the vaccine is made by growing influenza virus in fertile hens' eggs, then killing the virus. The dead virus, injected under the skin, creates protective antibodies. A single small injection (one cubic centimeter) usually gives a year's immunity against the two major types of flu, A and B. But it is strictly a preventive. Inoculation does not help after exposure to the disease...
Early next year, however, Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh (who is also panicking London in her husband's rather febrile production of The Skin of Our Teeth) will go to California. Their public explanation of the trip: Olivier wants his wife, who has only recently recovered from tuberculosis, to spend the winter in a mild climate. The likely outcome, considering the modest emoluments of stage glory: one or both will make a movie...
...Foundation for Infantile Paralysis alone has spent $2 million for advancement of physical therapy, including the Kenny technique. But even when they use the Kenny treatment, most doctors agree that polio is a disease of the nervous system, vigorously reject the Kenny theory that it is primarily a muscle-&-skin disorder...