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...woman, wrote Café Columnist Paul V. Coates in the Los Angeles Mirror, but most of the time she is also a "perfectly lousy cook." So why all this sentimental drivel about "Food Like Mother Used to Make?" Give him a nightclub table any time and some breast of guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man Who Came to Dinner | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What's to Eat? | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

After three years of painstaking experiments to remove the fatal factor from the vaccine, PHS's Dr. J. Frederick Bell believes that he has succeeded. With a team of researchers, he has produced a vaccine without the paralytic factor, which is still effective against rabies in guinea pigs. Vaccine producers throughout the country are testing the process, getting ready to use it in making human vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Man & Dog | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...private room in the same building. She was near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing to volunteer as guinea pigs for medical experiments.* Chief Prison Physician Charles C. Sweet had no trouble finding a man willing to take a chance, although he offered no rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life from a Lifer? | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...later, when Ormandy had brought Brahms's Symphony No. i to a resounding end, the applause came heavy and this time it was all for Ormandy and the orchestra. And when he finished the program with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, the white ties in the three-guinea stalls shouted bravos, while the galleries stomped and whistled. Ormandy beamed & bowed ten times, finally ended shouts of "Encore" by launching into God Save the King.* Then the musicians dashed off to a party at the U.S. embassy for a chance to meet the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: To Meet the Queen | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

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