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...plot is not without tension and suspense. Mr. Rattigan's terrific seriousness accounts for much of this, for we are led to believe that far below the surface of interweaving love, lust, and indifference, there is profound moral to be found. There is a moral: "Take a sleeping pill and go in living," and perhaps it is profound, but after all the histrionics which occur on stage, it seems a bit anti-climatic...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Deep Blue Sea | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

...show to its first sponsor by dumping a sack of unopened mail on a desk and offering odds that there wouldn't be a single uncomplimentary letter in the lot. Since then, Music has averaged five sponsors a night (ranging from Victor records to Dormin, a sleeping pill). Despite Cott's boast, there have been critical letters aplenty. Almost all of them say, in effect, that the trouble with the show is that music lovers can't bring themselves to turn the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Music in the Night | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Reduce. There is no good painless-pill method of reducing, the doctors were told. The A.M.A.'s Dr. Robert Stormont reported that only one drug has proved reasonably safe and useful (amphetamine or a derivative), and even this needs to be used under a doctor's care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat & Unhappy | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...part of the four and a half month controversy, stated, "I'm in favor of his getting elected right away--I only opposed him on small, separate issues." Sullivan, like Lynch, has supported the Manager during the whole controversy. Councillors W. Donnison Swan '17, Edward A. Crane '35, Hyman Pill and Mayor Joseph A. DiGuglielmo '29 have always opposed Atkinson...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Councillor Lynch Might Force City Manager Issue in Monday Meeting | 5/6/1952 | See Source »

...their patients when Squibb & Sons gave their Nydrazid to doctors at New York Hospital. There, though patients with advanced TB were scarce, the lab facilities were enormous. Dr. Walsh McDermott began elaborate biochemical tests on Nydrazid and soon made an important discovery: although it is swallowed as a pill (smaller than an aspirin tablet), the substance soon appears in the spinal fluid in "beautiful concentration." This meant that it might be extremely useful for tuberculous meningitis. Other tests recommended Nydrazid for miliary tuberculosis (throughout the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: TB --and Hope | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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