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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purely medical subject," from Nazi ideas of selective breeding: "It rests definitely on the principle of voluntariness. Genetic-hygiene measures are taken exclusively at the desire of the persons concerned. Experience shows that patients, after having been informed on the significance of the hereditary taint, nearly always follow their doctor's advice." He does not explain how a mentally defective patient can understand the medical and social considerations involved, or how "voluntariness" can be achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sterilization & Heredity | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Laments of Contestants. By blending this mixture of trouble and bubbles, NBC's Queen for a Day has become television's hottest daytime property. Every afternoon Monday through Friday, some 10 million TViewers-nearly half the nation's audience at that time-follow the laments of five contestants, and the contrapuntal clownings of M.C. Bailey, 48. An additional 1,000,000 or more listeners tune in the show on the Mutual radio network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Troubles & Bubbles | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Actor Salyer is exactly right in his role -the Virgil of this sad little hell. Though a ruin, he is a noble ruin, and by sheer force of presence he can command the onlooker to follow into the depths, and to look at things that may teach him a little-known truth about the brotherhood of man. It is not an ideal; it is a brutal fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

This typical French family is scarcely prepared for the brouhaha and hurluberlu that follow Pippin's elevation to the throne. There is the grand opening of the "Versailles-Hilton" hotel; the Folies-Bergere holds a contest for the official post of "King's Mistress"; and visiting royalty floods the capital ("Ava Gardner and H.S.H. Kelly are in residence"). Two hundred nobles come out of the woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If I Were King | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

John Getch will bat fifth and play left, followed by Botsford in right field, and Walt Stahura in center. Repetto will follow...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Repetto Slated to Pitch As Crimson Nine Plays BU | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

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