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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...study of subjects ranging from frontier Christmases to pioneer medicine. He took down the "Do Not Touch" signs, unlocked his glass cases, brought out his guns, pioneer medical instruments and candle molds. If schoolchildren could handle these trophies and "hold history in their hands," he reasoned, the past might come alive for some of them...
...fact, the uncounted, creaking legions of rheumatoid arthritis victims had nothing last week that they did not have last year-except more hope. They were not likely ever to get ACTH or cortisone for routine treatment. Now, as for years past, they would get bed rest, exercises, and aspirin to ease the pain...
...determined Lucia Chase had talked down the skeptics who told her that a company without "Russe" in the title was impossible. For five years, while Russian Balletomane Sol Hurok had his hands on the company, its American accent became thick with borsch, but Dancer Chase brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest hits, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22, 1944). The Yankee twang was sharpened even more...
...past fortnight, Russian radio listeners have been getting the Marxist lowdown on U.S. radio and TV. In a series grimly entitled "The Mouthpiece of American Reaction," Soviet Announcer Lapin has been saying that "radio, which is the great discovery of a Russian genius, the mighty weapon of culture and progress, has been transformed in imperialist America into a hotbed of vulgarity and ignorance, into a tool of profitmaking, slander and deceit . . . It is poisoning the politically backward and uncultured people with the virus of chauvinism and militarism...
Burlington, which calls Orion "one of the most significant textile developments in the past ten years," thinks that manufacturers may soon be turning out men's all-year suits which can be washed along with the family laundry (Orion's resistance to sunlight and mildew also makes it suitable for auto tops, awnings and shower curtains). But most U.S. consumers will have to wait for Orion until Du Pont gets into volume production later this year...