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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the National Cancer Institute's Dr. Roy Hertz: "In very rare instances, cancers have arisen in patients after very prolonged use of stilbestrol, and some physicians have been led to conclude that stilbestrol was a causative factor in these cases."
On the strength of this tenuous evidence. Secretary Flemming decided to ban the use of stilbestrol in fattening fowl. (It will still be permitted in fattening cattle and sheep, because even FDA supersleuths have not been able to find any residue in these meats, provided that growers stop feeding the...
Saratoga (adapted from Edna Ferber's novel Saratoga Trunk; music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer) is a gorgeously decked-out period musical, moving from a plush New Orleans in the '80s to a palmy Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The handsome sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton...
The chief trouble is once again book trouble, and the sense of a period musical in treatment as well as subject matter. Saratoga tells a tale of two young fortune seekers: an illegitimate New Orleans beauty and a ranchman gypped out of his inheritance, who unromantically team up to get...
The Arlen score, despite good rhythmic effects, never really gets its beat off the ground. The two or three times the dancing turns lively suggest a last two or three rounds of ammunition desperately fired at the advancing battalions of boredom. Carol Lawrence and Howard Keel are agreeable leads, but...