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Producer Maurice Evans, who dropped $49,000 trying to transplant The Linden Tree to Broadway, couldn't-say he hadn't been warned. "Why on earth are you in management?" Bernard Shaw once asked Evans. "It is the ruination of actors. Instead of putting money into the theater you should be taking money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Capital Socialist | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...will probably transplant Crisler's system here intact," Barclay said yesterday. "Naturally, he'll have some of his own ideas, but his basic philosophy will be like Crisler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valpey Will Bring Crisler System Here, Says Barclay | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

Cancer tissue, as researchers have long known, can easily be transplanted from one mammalian species to another. When Dr. Greene grafted human cancer tissue on a guinea pig's eye (a nourishing and easy-to-watch site for experiment), the transplanted cancer thrived in its new environment. But his efforts to transplant normal adult human tissue to the guinea pig's eye failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In a Guinea Pig's Eye | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...world [except] as the instrument of a victorious power against other victorious powers." In a pointedly anti-Russian passage, he promptly played one victorious power against another: "We recognize Russia as a piece of Europe. . . . But the thing against which we ... always will defend ourselves is the attempt to transplant cultural and political conceptions to German soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Warm-Up | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Mozart & Chamois. Most of the 15,000 U.S. occupation troops in Austria were boys between 18 and 22. Weaned on ice cream sodas, they had known little except the good life of high-school dances and corner drugstores. The U.S. Army helped to transplant much of that life to Austria. It set up replicas of U.S. drugstores where G.I.s could take their Austrian girls for a soda (daily ice-cream consumption of the U.S. Army & friends in Vienna now runs to 60,000 scoops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: G.I. Metamorphosis | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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