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Latest news from the psychosomatic front: many cases of trench mouth and inflammation of the gums start out as inflamed emotions. Said Research Assistant Sol J. Ewen of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: dentists should open up a little wider, get a mouthful of psychiatry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Down in the Mouth | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...first light of dawn, soldiers carrying huge bowls of steaming rice cautiously picked their way down the trench-laced narrow streets. A donkey hitched to an ancient wooden-wheeled cart, loaded with shining black 105 mm. shell cases, munched slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle Piece | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look pretty good to Faulkner: "I was a free man. Had one pair of pants, one pair of shoes, and an old trench coat with a pocket big enough for a whiskey bottle; Now I get stacks of letters, asking what I eat for breakfast, and what about curves and linear discreteness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...cutting a narrow trench 80 feet from the mill, Godfrey hopes to find traces of the "ambulatory walk" of the Norse church. Uncovered thus far: a 1696 King William III penny, a lead musket ball, an old brass button, a clay pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Coffee Pot, where the plane was grounded. Second stop was Hollywood, where Traveler Perelman had scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare of the match I saw that his tiny pig eyes were bright with tears...

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

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