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...Called "Up the Street," the new album will contain Harvard, Sousa, and other popular marches. Cuttings include "Our Director," "Up the Street," "Stars and Stripes Forever," and "Semper Fidelis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Band Album Records Marches | 5/11/1950 | See Source »

...Department of Agriculture announced that they had discovered something new about plants' "photoperiodism." They irradiated soybeans and other sensitive plants with narrow-wave bands of colored light from a spectroscope. Judging by the plants' responses to different colors, the experimenters decided that plants must contain invisible amounts of a blue pigment which acts as a sort of alarm clock. The scientists do not know exactly what the powerful pigment is, but when it gets the right amount of illumination, it tells the plant to wake up and start the business of flowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flower Alarm Clock | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Lorillard Co. was told to stop advertising that Old Golds contain less nicotine, tars and resin and are less irritating to the throat than any other leading brand. Said FTC: "It is impossible [for a manufacturer] to maintain in the finished cigarettes, over any considerable period of time, a uniform level of nicotine content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smoke Screen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike), its subsidiary American Cigarette, & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall), and Philip Morris & Co., and might bring cease & desist orders against them. FTC investigators have found, for example, that despite claims of being "easier on the throat," king-size cigarettes (such as Pall Mall) actually contain "more tobacco and therefore more harmful substances" than are found in an ordinary cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Smoke Screen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...night social functions on club premises at which women are present must end by midnight, claiming that this is required by law. Such an assertion is untrue, since police state that a private function at a club is not subject to blue laws. Through and through, the proposed rules contain suck poorly drawn up regulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules and the Undergraduate | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

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