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...already been treated by surgery or radiation, which confused the picture. The doctors wanted to find cancer victims who had had no other treatment and for whom none was possible. The place, suggested the African Research Foundation, * was in and around Kenya, where cancer of the head, cervix and liver is common and medical care is scarce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Battling Cancer by Infusion | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind and walks alone through the deserted countryside, a concentration of thought and bile, a liver with feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Opera Without Music | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

Triparanol, say Merrell researchers, works by blocking a late stage of cholesterol manufacture in the liver. This means that unusually large amounts of a preceding substance, desmosterol, are left sloshing around in the blood. As Boston's noted heart specialist, Dr. Robert W. Wilkins, has pointed out, nobody knows yet what effect this added desmosterol will have on patients. So far, undesirable reactions have been few and mild (nausea and occasional rashes). Whatever triparanol's ultimate effect on patients' health and survival, the drug gives physicians a chance to find some of the answers that laboratory research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cutting the Cholesterol | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...press for a night session. The Assembly job also calls for the exercise of behind-the-scenes social as well as diplomatic skills. Fortunately, Frederick Boland is a gregarious man. "You can accomplish a lot over a steak and a dry martini," he says. "I just hope my liver holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Favored Candidate | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...billings from $4,900,000 to $120 million in his 19 years at Bates. These tactics have also inspired the FTC to fire off more complaints against Bates than other agencies. Among its accounts that have also been named by the FTC: Life cigarettes, Rolaids, Carter's Little "Liver" Pills. What miffed Reeves most was that until two months ago, the FTC had usually tipped him and the advertiser that a complaint was coming, given them a chance to argue their case beforehand or to clean up the controversial ad and thus kill the complaint. This time, said Reeves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Bates's Bait | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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