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Penicillin was still making news last week. In Britain, its discoverer and chief developer, Professors Alexander Fleming and Howard W. Florey (TIME, May 15), were knighted by King George VI. Sir Howard reported progress toward chemical synthesis of the drug. In the U.S. the available supply for civilians was doubled...
¶ One gauge of war's effect on civilians is the number of "psychosomatic" ills (ulcers, headaches, tiredness, etc.) among draftees. On the basis of 13,000,000 physicals, Colonel Leonard George Rowntree says such ills have doubled since war began, have increased even among Negroes, who as a...
Wallace and Simons then both clamped down, and the game lost interest until, with two out in the top half of the eighth, Quonset sent Lawson in to pinch-hit for Simons. Lawson bounced a fluke single high over Wallace's head, and then Bart doubled into left field, Lawson...
The Legend. Joe Day was Manhattan-born of English-Irish parents. His father, who had a prosperous soda-water business in New York City, died when Joe was five. His mother died nine years later. Joe left school, went to work for a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods firm; salary, $100...
With these impudent lines, neatly punctuated by music, upstart radio last week poked Hollywood in the nose. The sock was sharply delivered by U.S. radio's foremost writer-producer-innovator, Norman Corwin, who deserted radio eight months ago for the alabaster mines of Hollywood. Now back in the fold...