Word: arsenic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember Dr. Spilsbury?" Judge Darling asked the jury in an arsenic case. "Do you remember how he stood, and the way in which he gave evidence? . . . Did you ever see a witness who more thoroughly satisfied you that he was absolutely impartial, absolutely fair, absolutely indifferent as to whether his evidence told for the one side or the other...
Remains To Be Seen (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) does a straight hack job in hit-or-miss fashion. In their first mystery farce, the authors of Life With Father and the producers of Arsenic and Old Lace never manage to make murder, or much of anything else, amusing. When the curtain goes up, a highly unpopular vice-snooper is already dead, and in due time a highly unperturbed audience finds out who killed him. But the mystery side of Remains To Be Seen can largely be ignored; indeed, the playwrights themselves set the example...
...Group also announced the opening of its annual playwright contest open to all members of the University and Radcliffe. Actress Josephine Hull, Radcliffe '99, who recently has appeared in "Harvey" and "Arsenic and Old Lace," and Armina Marshall, producer of Theatre Guild on the Air, have so far been selected as judges. The winning script will be produced by the Group in the spring. Entries close January...
...method used in a criminal investigation. A strand of Mme. Duflos' hair was irradiated in Zoé. Later, in the secrecy of the judge's chambers, Toxicologist Griffon reported the results of the test, named the date when unfortunate Mme. Duflos first swallowed a dose of arsenic...
...France, where arsenic has been a popular eliminator since the days of the famed Marquise de Brinvilliers,* this lack of precision troubled Henri Griffon, toxicology specialist for the Paris prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements...