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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the patients on whom Dr. Bargen tried methylcellulose had taken, as they said, "barrels of laxatives," and were still constipated. One 6g-year-old woman had been taking daily doses as long as she could remember. A girl of 19, her mother testified, had taken a laxative nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Bulk | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Doctors themselves were mostly to blame for making the U.S. a nation of laxative-takers. A generation ago, they spread the word, with the help of patent-medicine advertisers, that waste matter retained in the colon causes self-poisoning. Current medical belief denies this. Furthermore, most so-called constipation is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Bulk | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

In the three weeks of televised United Nations sessions (sponsored, without commercials, by Ford Motor Co.), some adult viewers have found moments that neither Berle nor baseball could equal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newer Than Baseball | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

By last week, the Times had published letters from an M.P., five bishops (four Anglican and one Catholic), several noted Roman Catholic writers (including Arnold Lunn and Robert Sencourt) and some 30 others. The Anglican Bishop of Winchester challenged Roman Catholicism to say whether it wanted cooperation and "to let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Revivified Christendom? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

The Army had the word straight from an old West Point superintendent now in Tokyo. Messaged General Douglas Mac-Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Today! | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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