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They Knew What They Wanted (by Sidney Howard; produced by Leonard Sillman) is the Pulitzer Prize play that made the late Sidney Howard famous. After 15 years it seems (like rooms and houses not seen since childhood) much smaller than memory suggested. It still has fresh and human qualities and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Howard Schultz Anders of Philadelphia hates dirt and dust. He has spent 50 of his 72 years chasing it out of city streets. In the early 1900s Dr. Anders induced the Pennsylvania State Legislature to pass an antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Anders himself was on the carpet, and the reason was a pulverized poison called morphine. By regulation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a physician may not supply morphine to a known addict. But for two years Dr. Anders has been feeding heroic doses of morphine to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Into the respectable wholesale drug house of John Wyeth & Bro., Inc. stumbled Fred Barrick last month. Waving an official Government order blank signed by Dr. Anders, he demanded 500 half-grain tablets of morphine sulphate, enough to choke a team of horses. Since Government order blanks are for the personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Last week, Dr. Anders was indicted for illegally "selling" Barrick some 10,000 half-grain morphine tablets in the past two years. No man to preserve a "damned deferential silence," he made a public case out of his indictment, spoke his mind to Philadelphia reporters. Said he:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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