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Almost immediately, troubles beset Mayor George Clough. George liked the gamblers but the gamblers did not like him. Said one: "We can't support a man who won't take money. If you can't cut him off, he's liable to get sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Sin in Galveston | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Detracting nothing from honors rightfully deserved by Dr. Salk [April 25], how about thanks to the little guys with sore left arms and their predecessors, "the stuck west-ends," without whose help the great doctor might not have succeeded so well and so fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...When she developed a small sore inside her mouth, a 58-year-old housewife asked her husband, a night watchman, what she should do. He recalled reading somewhere that "X ray and radium are no good for cancer." Friends recommended a healer, and she began the salve treatment. At first the lesion was only the size of a pencil eraser; after two years it had ulcerated her whole cheek. When she complained of extreme pain, the healer said: "That's fine. The salve's working, drawing out the cancer." When the woman finally got to Duke, her entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Quacks | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...Known cases of hepatitis (a liver infection accompanied by fever and jaundice) have tripled in the U.S. since 1952, reported the U.S. Public Health Service. The ailment now ranks fifth (behind measles, VD, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat, and TB) in prevalence among communicable diseases; last year 49,722 cases were reported (up nearly 50% from 1953). Present standard treatment: rest and a highprotein, liquor-free diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...obvious enjoyment of the singers, one of the high spots of the performance. It should be noted, however, that G. & S. did not achieve here that perfect union of talents which marks their best works: Gilbert's libretto to Ida is, with exceptions, far superior to Sullivan's sore...

Author: By James F. Gilligan, | Title: Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Princess Ida' | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

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