For six years, the NBC series St Elsewhere literally set the standard for network programming, offering a consistently high level of realistic writing, ensemble acting, narrative experimentation and outrageous humor.
Every year, hundreds of children were stricken with polio. Before testing iron lung machines on humans, two dozen cats had to die under anesthetic.
Interest centers in two new compounds that have remarkable quieting effect; Longer wait, however, believed necessary By Albert W Bloom, Post-Gazette Staff Writer The era
A remarkable operation for producing spinal anesthesia, daring in its conception and brilliant in its results, was performed – injecting into the spine a solution of cocaine, so within a few minutes the sense of pain is entirely obliterated.
In some ways new parenthood looks just like it did in the 1940s… and in other ways, it’s pretty different. Here’s a little peek.
Little visitors to the maternity ward It’s hard enough for a three- or four-year-old to accept the arrival of a new baby. But when mother
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
30 vintage TV dinners: Fried chicken, turkey, pot roast & other fab frozen food, retro-style 
20 vintage pink bathrooms: See some wild bubblegum-era midcentury home decor of the 1950s & 1960s 
US Army shoulder insignia (1945) 
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