A scientist described in the September 1946 issue of _True: The Men's Magazine_ kept a chart on his lab wall that looked like a stock graph. The peaks and valleys represented his mood cycle. High weeks, he'd "feel equal to tackling tigers with his bare hands." — Read the rest

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Alfred M. Thomsen had spent years at his San Francisco lab trying to grow edible yeast. The yeast grew, but every batch came out terrible. Then one day, a brew that should have been especially nasty boiled over onto his hand. — Read the rest

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在這此引人入勝的歷史著作中，維克托．謝別斯琛透過大量檔案與個人證詞，細緻描繪1946年如何形塑今日世界、影響數代人的命運。