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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a disease detective in New York's Westchester County, Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf was called in on many a late-summer and early-fall epidemic of what seemed to be mild polio. Few victims suffered paralysis, and all recovered, often with startling rapidity. In a 1942 outbreak in White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio's Little Brother | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

House Divided. What is necessary and reasonable? In deciding this, said Dr. Kenward, parents must use their own "good sense and courage." Society has vague and contradictory standards, and other factors work to undermine the parents' convictions and decisions. Furthermore, indecision wrecks discipline: "The child has an amazing ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Whop for the Psyche | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

What happened then? Enright's onetime pressagent, Art Franklin, told the story. "It was just automatically assumed by everyone that Herb Stempel was a raving lunatic," said Franklin. Even so NBC was "terrified," and "kept their hands as clean as possible by kicking it under the carpet." At that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

"Or Else." If Herb Stempel was hardly convincing when he first blabbed, the public began to listen when his charges were seconded by baby-faced Artist James Snodgrass, 36. Last week Snodgrass dramatically opened a registered letter, postmarked May 10, 1957, which not only gave the questions for the May...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

What was intensely irritating about the show was its phony air of spontaneity, with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hard Way to Tell a Joke | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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