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...Dubliner, Dr. Raymond G. Cross, offered suggestions which made some of his colleagues blink: 1) because overheating of the testicles reduces sperm production, tight-fitting underwear is bad-a kilt is just the thing; 2) a man whose sperm output is below par should eat onions, garlic, bananas, celery, parsley, honey, cheese and molasses, and drink stout; 3) before trying to bring about conception, such a husband should remain continent for ten days to six weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: More Babies | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...football games, dressed in the loud yellow jacket of the Tigers, the professor was usually on hand to lead the cheering. At dances he acted as "bouncer," at elections as "policeman." Sometimes he could be seen mowing his lawn in his underwear, sometimes taking a constitutional at 3 a.m., and sometimes wandering through the Southern Missouri hills, cape and all, looking for Indian mounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun All My Life | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis. Don Taylor, Richard Erdman, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves and Co-Author Trzcinski himself play P.W.s. Robert Strauss repeats his stage role as Animal, a big, hairy oaf who lumbers around in long winter underwear dreaming out loud about-Betty Grable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Through their binoculars, the men on the outpost hill spotted a lone figure, clad in long woolen underwear and brown sweater, lying in an old Korean graveyard in no man's land, only 350 yards from the neutral perimeter of Panmunjom. Cautiously, a squad of marines started toward him. Part way down the hill, a Puerto Rican marine recognized the wounded man as Pfc. Francisco Gonzalez Matias, 21, of San Sebastian, P.R. In Spanish, Gonzalez was asked if he could walk. Clutching a handkerchief in which was wrapped a rosary, the wounded man struggled to his feet, stumbled toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: No. I | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

When the chamber of the House of Commons was rebuilt after the blitz, it was said to have the world's finest air-conditioning system. But soon M.P.s were complaining about the stuffiness and the drafts. M.P.s in tweeds and woolen underwear objected that Britons are used to, and dress for, indoor temperatures of less than the 70° that satisfies most Americans. On the other hand, when the doors are opened wide, a chilly blast from adjoining rooms leaves the front benches shivering. Prime Minister Winston Churchill once got so cold that he flounced out of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cooling Off | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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