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...Houston police force surprised a Saturday night crap game. One of the Negroes dropped a gun and ran. Detective Bradshaw collared that man. Detective Davis chased another one, a Negro named Robert Powell. Some one shot. Davis shot too, then dropped, wounded mortally. Powell, wounded in the abdomen, crept home to bed. But he was found and with him a discharged revolver. He denied shooting Detective Davis. He was arrested, removed to a hospital, charged with murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Houston's Shame | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Luke's Hospital, Chicago, Dr. Alfred P. Solomon, neurologist, last week, hypnotized a young woman. During the hour she lay so, Dr. Harold G. Jones of Chicago opened her abdomen and removed several bothersome adhesions. She felt no pain and, upon awakening, experienced none of the nauseating after-effects of usual anesthetics. Such operations upon hypnotized patients are rare in the U. S. In Europe (notably in France and Germany) they are frequent. Europeans esteem the uses of hypnotism. They used it for surgical operations 100 years ago. The discovery in 1848 of chloroform's anesthetic properties curtailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypnotism | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...settle back and enjoy life. If there's any worrying to be done let the pilot do it: that's what he's hired for. . . . Take the turns naturally with the plane. Don't try to hold the lower wing with the muscles of the abdomen- it's unfair to yourself and an unjust criticism of the pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Air Tour | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Chicago, one William Glauber and one Frederick Knauff, friends for years, gave each other black eyes. Reason: Mr. Knauff had a cold. Mr. Glauber, promising a cure, stuck large porous plasters on Mr. Knauff's chest, back, abdomen. Mr. Knauff got well. Then Mr. Glauber peeled off the plasters, peeling off also Mr. Knauff's means of livelihood in a circus, to wit, a tattooed portrait of Abraham Lincoln (chest); assorted tattooed landscapes, ships, anchors, Uncle Sams (abdomen); nude females, South Sea Islanders, palms, boats (back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendant | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Waterbury, Conn., one William Hennesey heard that his friend, Christopher Walsh, was belittling him. Mr. Hennesey took his derringer, called on Mr. Walsh, fired, grazing Mr. Walsh's abdomen; fired again, hit himself in the hat. Doctors quieted Mr. Walsh, but when released from the hospital he called on Mr. Hennesey, thumped him, bumped, banged, kicked, bruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Cow | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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