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...Great Hour," scripted by Erik Barnouw, president of the Radio Writers' Guild, and edited by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, will feature the voices of President Truman, Movie Stars Gregory Peck, Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino and Commentator Quentin Reynolds...
...mile race, it struck up the Belgian national anthem-for balding, ruddy-faced Gaston Reiff, Olympic 5,000-meter record holder. It was a jockeying race from the start: first, Philadelphia's Curt Stone took the lead, then FBI man Fred Wilt, then Sweden's Erik Ahlden, then Reiff, then Stone, then Reiff. The Belgian, running with a choppy, high-knee action and occasionally dropping his arms to rest, fought off three challengers in the last quarter mile, finished in a blazing 8:56.1. It was the fastest indoor double mile since Greg Rice retired...
...story told about the accidental discovery of the effect that a drug named antabus has had in arousing a loathing for alcohol in almost everybody who has taken it. According to Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, who discovered the drug's anti-alcoholic potentialities, TIME was the first U.S. publication to print the story...
...ERIK FENNEL...
...discovery was an accident. Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, 45, likes to try out new drugs on himself before giving them to his patients. One night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound and he had trouble getting his breath...