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...used as guinea pigs. They will be needed for experiments, for many questions are still unanswered. Is there any drug that will do any good for a cold? Can a vaccine be developed for MRi? Just how long is a cold "catching?" What effect do low temperatures and wet weather have? The new test does not mean that a cure has been found for the common cold. But the search has been speeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: MR-I | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...coach, gum-chomping, 36-year-old Lynn Patrick, who had been managing a Ranger farm team, the New Haven Ramblers, had not seen the Rangers play all season. At the final buzzer, he was wringing wet and shaking from tension. Said he: "I've never wanted to win a game so much in my life." The Rangers cooperated by handing the Black Hawks their first defeat in five games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boss's Son | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...question was carefully phrased. Had Alger Hiss or his wife ever turned over any Government documents to Whittaker Chambers? In a hushed room in New York's federal courthouse, Alger Hiss, onetime State Department official, listened to the question. Outside, a wet snow was falling on the city. Hiss, the man with the impeccable background, answered: "Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Accused | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

From the moment Barry Fitzgerald enlists an unemployed Hollywood stunt man to impersonate the crazy and deceased scion of the Wealthy Tatlock family, "Miss Tatlock's Millions" rockets its imaginative and hugely funny way through acres of slapstick to a wet and happy ending in the Hawaiian breakers...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/30/1948 | See Source »

...When a movie theater in Angier, N.C. (pop. 1,028) scheduled a sex picture called Mom and Dad ("Bold! Shocking! The Secrets of Sensible Sex"), it was overrun by an unmanageable crowd. Firemen had to wet down the crowd with a hose before the picture could be shown to an all-male audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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