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Four days later six Senators lolled in their chairs, one of them asleep. The galleries were half empty. The U. S., and the Senate with it, was watching the World Series. In Vice President John Garner's cloakroom, office a near-quorum collected around his portable radio, bet cigars on the scores. Despairing of a week-end quorum in the chamber, leaders moved debate ahead to this week. In five days the Great Debate had gone bloop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Question Marks | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, Pa., Nathan Jacobson told police that he had been robbed of $800 while asleep in quarters provided by the Association for the Improvement of the Poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Information | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...days flat he could, unassisted, pull Denmark's oldest car right around the country's borders. With only three miles and 24 hours to go he stopped at an inn to celebrate the certainty of bagging his bet. He celebrated so heartily that he fell asleep, overslept, lost his bet by one hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: War y. War | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Sleep Starvation Tries Looks!" cried the fashion column of London's Daily Telegraph last week, bravely offering health & beauty advice to a host of war-worried feminine readers. "Even the women who are accustomed to fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows may be suffering from a minor form of insomnia, and the real victims of insomnia may be having a worse time than usual." To save British complexions from wrinkles etched by air-raid fears, the Telegraph offered with a straight face the following pseudo-scientific "receipts for easy sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleep Starvation | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...worked overtime. One super-diligent engineer stayed on the job for 48 hours straight following Hitler's epochal Reichstag speech. Someone finally made him go home. When he had been asleep only an hour, his telephone rang. "This," said a velvet voice, "is the Crossley radio survey. Will you tell me what program you have been listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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