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...have lasted years longer than most people can stand each other"). An eccentric who knows as much about Thomas Hardy's novels as she does about cirrhosis of the liver, Charlie Kate is in fact a healing genius who uses herbal cures like evening primrose and Saint-John's-Wort, as well as all the modern medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine Woman | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

Strangely though, the industry is in about as much ferment as the bubbling wort in a brewer's tank. Small and some not so small regional brewers are constantly going under or at best being bought out by healthier competitors. Main reason: they cannot stand the competition of the Big Five: Anheuser-Busch, Jos. Schlitz, Pabst, Coors and Miller. The rivalry keeps industry prices and profit margins so low (3.8% of sales for Anheuser-Busch) that only the best-managed companies can survive. As a result, the five have increased their share of total barrelage from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Bubbling Battle of the Brewers | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...from the University of Cincinnati. He was ordained in 1923, but instead of taking a pulpit he took off for Germany. Shifting from university to university in the continental manner, Glueck studied Eastern lore at Heidelberg and Berlin, got a Ph.D. at Jena with a formidable thesis entitled Das Wort Hesed im alttestamentlichen Sprachgebrauche (The Word Grace in Old Testament Usage). Then he returned to Berlin to study Assyrian and Ethiopic. He was already feeling that the archaeology of the Bible would be his life's high interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Shards of History | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Between seizures of hot blood and high deeds, the heroes-one for each generation -make corn squeezings. They are artists who operate the pot still as if it were a pipe organ, mixing corn and small grain with boiling water, adding yeast, and from this wort-which is what the mash is called-distilling clear ethyl alcohol. Redistilled to remove foul-tasting fusel oil, aged for color and character in charred oak casks, the alcohol becomes whisky. Robinson is so explicit that an attentive reader with no fear of federal agents could try it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corn-Squeeze Artist | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent news agency to party interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Story | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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