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That mustard severely irritates the stomach, that alcohol taken in small quantities does not inflame the stomach at all. Drs. Douthwaite and Lintott had noticed that many patients suffered heartburn after taking aspirin. They collected 16 patients who were willing to endure the discomfort of a gastroscope, gave them three tablets of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) crushed in one ounce of water. Through the gastroscope the doctors saw most of the 16 glistening pink stomachs turn at once to a "dusky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stomach Irritants | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was severely criticized for taking curtain calls while the audience called for the ballerina. Ever since, Lifar has been grumpy, dissatisfied. Last week in Manhattan he challenged Ballet Director Leonide Massine to a duel in Central Park. Massine told him, "Take an aspirin." In a huff Lifar took instead the S. S. Champlain for Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...television station needs a slice of the radio spectrum six times as big as the total band of kilocycles now occupied by all U.S. broadcasting stations. This idea of an ultra-high-frequency transmitter which needs an even larger slice of the radio spectrum should make FCCommissioners scream for aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wave Focus | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Engaged. Hephzibah Menuhin, 18, concert pianist and sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin; and Lindsay George Nicholas, son of an Australian aspirin manufacturer. Last fortnight Yehudi Menuhin made known his engagement to Lindsay Nicholas' sister, Nola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Engaged-Yehudi Menuhin, 21, concert violinist and onetime boy prodigy; and Nola Nicholas, 19, redheaded daughter of an Australian aspirin maker. Violinist Menuhin proposed to Miss Nicholas by long-distance telephone (Holland to Melbourne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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