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None of this meant that Sherman would have an easy-or even successful-career as head of the Navy. Resentments against him ran deep in his own service, deeper perhaps than against any other officer erf the Navy. But if he became the choice of the Commander in Chief, it would be up to the Navy to accept the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Punishment | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Leukemia, a cancerlike disease of the blood, had the most varied list of possible causes. Dr. Lowell A. Erf, of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, named as possible villains to be watched: radiation (from cosmic rays, X rays), chemical changes within the body's blood-making cells, chemicals outside the body (industrial wastes, gasoline fumes), the emotions (which upset the body's metabolism), and viruses. Dr. Erf had a suggestion for research: since leukemia victims have improved after having virus diseases, give them a mild strain of virus diseases like chickenpox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing Fight | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

CHILDREN OF VIENNA (223 pp.)-Rob-erf Neumann-Dutfon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...blood through the walls of those capillaries. According to one of the articles which Dr. Fishbein published last week, one treatment for thrombocytopenic purpura is the injection of water moccasin venom. The developers of this remedy, Manhattan's Drs. Samuel M. Peck, Nathan Rosenthal and Lowell A. Erf, advise a long series of hypodermic injections of dilute venom into the loose space between the skin and muscles. They admittedly do not understand the why or wherefore of their treatment. They do know that "it apparently has been of value in 22 of the 34 cases in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poisons for Purpura | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...next group in point of numbers, but one even larger in point of circulation, is the Hearst press. Mr. Hearst owns 22 papers with 14 Sunday editions. They have a total daily circulation erf 3,350,411, and a Sunday circulation of 4,084,394. This gives him over 10% of total circulation of all daily papers in the country, and almost 20% of the entire Sunday circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Magnates | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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