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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follows a six-point rule of his own: 1) donor and recipient must remain absolutely unknown to each other; 2) both patient and husband must approve, and need no urging from either the physician or from each other; 3) the practice must not become available to all who ask for it-the doctor must know donor and recipient well; 4) fees must be kept low, to eliminate mercenary motives; 5) the legal father, not the biological father, must be listed on the birth certificate; 6) signed papers must be kept to a minimum-or, better still, eliminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stand | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...expert, Dr. T. S. Battistini of the Peruvian Hygienic Institute, thought he had a promising lead: the sandfly is extremely vulnerable to DDT. When the rainy season ends in June, Peru will launch an intensive DDT attack in a test area. It will be none too soon; verruga, long unknown outside of Peru, seems to be spreading. Since 1939 outbreaks have been reported in Colombia and Ecuador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death in the Valley | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Only minor casualties resulted. But Monarchist Roberto Bencivenga, who had been struck on the back of the neck with a club, posted a notice on the Assembly's bulletin board: "I challenge the unknown hero who struck me from behind to meet me face to face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Battle of the Inkpots | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...commutes, along with total enrollment, was at a low ebb. Failure to rebuild this collection has meant that Dudley's patrons receive less benefit than any other group from the University's matches library facilities. The inequality may be removed when the Lamont undergraduate library is completed at some unknown future date. Meanwhile, provision should be made so that commuters--numbering considerably more than the membership of the average House--do not continue to be poor in the midst of plenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What, No Books? | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

...Against 18,000. In Los Angeles last week, amid the rumble-and-crash of mineralite balls on maple alleys, Andy Varipapa again flunked his A.B.C.s. The unknown who pushed into the lead at the tourney's halfway point was slim, 49-year-old Fred Breckle of Detroit. His score was 738; Varipapa's, 715. But the man the crowds came to see was Varipapa, who has won every other major tournament often enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Greatest | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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