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...Both men and insects," says Hyslop, "have a right to'live on the earth. But we slap the insect down-put DDT on him. The average man thinks of insects as a pest, that we'd be better off without them. We wouldn't; we'd be extinct. When people say to me, 'What use is an insect?' I answer, 'What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spokesman for the Enemy | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Drugs like aspirin raise the "pain threshold"-i.e., the point where sensations, often pleasant ones, ring the alarm of pain. An affectionate pat becomes a painful slap, for instance, if the patter pats hard enough. A person who has been

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeling No Pain | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit, snarl, bite, slap, kick, dance, sing (in Spanish), pull a knife and, of course, exercise her deadlier blandishments. The film's limitations are largely those of its star, though it manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack at each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying "a black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travels with a Donkey | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...used recklessly, George A. Renard, executive secretary of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, protested that it opened a "Pandora's box of controls." Mindful of the wartime jungle of red tape, one manufacturer fervently prayed that "every second lieutenant in the armed forces would not slap on priorities for everything purchased for national defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Off Base | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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