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...gave our 23rd performance of Ten Nights, with others booked for the near future. Next Sunday, through the courtesy of Messrs. Lindsay and Grouse to the men in the front line of defense, 2,000 sailors will see practically the same cast give the first non-professional production of Arsenic & Old Lace. Now when some branch of the armed services in Hawaii wishes to be entertained, we rub our hands with servile glee and say, "What'll it be, boys-ham or homicide...
There is no vaccine against sleeping sickness, but the powerful arsenic drug tryparsamide, which kills syphilis spirochetes, also kills the trypanosomes of sleeping sickness. Developed in the Rockefeller Institute in 1919, and introduced to Africa by Dr. Louise Pearce in the '20s, tryparsamide clears up sleeping sickness in three to six months when injected twice a week. General Sicé's biggest job was persuading the natives to take the treatment. He also organized fly-killing squads. With this curative and preventive program, in 17 years General Sicé brought down the sleeping-sickness toll from...
World War II is a boon to the bug armies. The minerals with which man has fought bugs for years-arsenic, copper, lead-are now needed for his war on his own kind. Carbon tetrachloride, ethylene dichloride and chloropicrin are withheld from insecticide manufacturers for the benefit of war materials. The phosphorus paste that used to kill cockroaches now goes into incendiary bombs. A group of six articles on the war against insects, in the current issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, makes these facts plain...
...mannered life. Before Grandma (Mrs. Sophie Spiegelmann) died in 1935, she had promised to leave Courtney $1,000. "We have a court order to take up the body of your grandmother," a deputy sheriff told Courtney. "What do you think we will find?" Courtney replied: "You'll find arsenic. I poisoned Grandmother. It was my first venture...
...this timid soul slowly killed his wife with arsenic, for reasons unknown, and skipped town when the police started to investigate the death. With his beard shaved, he looked very much like Goebbels, and very little like Muenter. He settled in Texas, took a college degree and the name "Frank Holt" and worked his way up the academic ladder till he was a professor of German at Cornell...