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...natural antidotes to poison, made a mixture of all five, gave it to their animals along with doses of various harmful drugs. When they matched the "detoxicants" with poisons, grain for grain, the death rate of their animals was sliced to a fraction, in some cases disappeared. For example, arsenic, which killed 65% of the rats, killed only 15% when it was given with the detoxicants; a dose of sulfathiazole that would ordinarily have killed 40% of a large group of mice killed none. At the same time, the mixture seemed to strengthen the curative powers of sulfa drugs...
Following the present fad of humorizing homicide (Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. and Mrs. North), Topper Returns puts the emphasis on nonsense. Some of it is just tiresome repetition of one of the cinema's pet tricks-an invisible person startling the other characters by smoking a cigaret, rowing a boat, opening a door. Some is fair comedy-Roland Young's befuddled resignation to a world of phantoms and foul play; the friendly insolence of Eddie Anderson (Radio Comic Jack Benny's radio butler, Rochester Van Jones). All of it is hokum, tried & true...
...fatalities in World War I. They cause blood fluid to flood the lung's air sacs, killing the victim very much as drowning does. The principal types used in the last war were chlorine and phosgene; types have also been perfected which include a little arsenic just in case the victim survives lung injury...
...heretofore. Nearly every speaker on both sides preened himself on his lack of emotion, took pride in his own hardheaded, coldly practical viewpoint. All the tears shed for Britain could have been collected in an eyedropper; all the hate for Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried in its own way to keep its head on straight. Franklin Roosevelt had taken the "silly, foolish dollar sign" off aid-to-Britain. Congress put the dollar sign back on in jig-time, and tried vainly to add on a few cent...
...fantastic farce Arsenic and Old Lace (TIME, Jan. 20) makes murder a paralyzingly funny subject. Mr. and Mrs. North makes it light, amiable, just a little scary...