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...Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept...
...Arsenic and Old Lace (Gary Grant, Priscilla Lane; TIME, Sept.11...
...Arsenic and Old Lace (Warners) is a reasonable facsimile of the Broadway comedy about two Brooklyn spinsters who make a hobby of dosing old men with arsenic. By inverting the traditional concept of murder as a crime of passion and turning it into an ingenuous diversion for pixillated old ladies, wholesale slaughter is made an innocently delightful subject...
Death behind the Door. Deadliest weapon with which U.S. police have to cope is the shotgun: "It seems that nearly every farmhouse in the country has a shotgun behind the kitchen door and these frequently become involved in crimes. . . ." Dr. Snyder debunks some common notions about poisons: arsenic and strychnine, for example, though often used, are very dangerous to a murderer, because their presence in the body can be detected for some time after the murder. Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons...
Autopsy showed crystals in the young man's kidneys (commonest way a sulfa drug kills), damaged liver and heart, inflamed intestines, slight pneumonia.* Medical experts at the inquest laid most sulfa deaths to self-dosage. The drugs, they said, should be dispensed as carefully as strychnine or arsenic...