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...Like Flies." In Salonika a top police officer told me: "If there has ever been a fertile breeding ground for Communism, it's among these refugees. Communist agents are swarming over them like flies and I don't know what we're going to use for DDT. If we can't feed them, house them, or give them any real hope, all they are going to have to live on this winter is Communist propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE BATtLE FOR GREECE | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Vaccines are no use . . . they are not worth the trouble. . . . Vitamins don't prevent colds or cure them. There's a bit of a racket there. ... If you take no drugs, your cold lasts 14 days; if you take drugs, it lasts a fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Am I, Doctor? | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...opinion of no less an authority than Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, famed Mayo Clinic internist, doctors should take a long, suspicious look at mineral oil. Said Fishbein, quoting Alvarez: "These observations raise the grave question . . . whether mineral oil can be used safely, year in and year out, as some persons use it; they also raise the question whether purveyors of food should ever be allowed to substitute mineral oil for the edible fats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case Against Mineral Oil | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...describe "this new group or institute" which calls itself "Christian," its moving characterization of the sect is still a counsel of perfection. Excerpt: "Christians are not different from the rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom or reflection of mere active-minded men; in deed, they are not outstanding in human learning as others are. . . . They live, each in his native...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pioneers | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Television Magazine reported an increase in television advertisers (89 in August to 107 in September). NBC will soon hike the price for the use of its television studios from $850 to $1,500 an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Television News | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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