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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of Czechoslovakians last week went to bed with gas masks at their bedsides. By law, every Czech citizen in cities must possess a gas mask before the end of June, and last week, reported Eleanor Packard, wife of United Pressman Reynolds Packard, thousands jammed Prague's 20 gas mask dispensaries where attractive blondes demonstrated the operating technique. "I bought a de luxe model for $6.68 with a head piece that seemed like a set of rubber false teeth, with goggle eyes and a dog-like nose. It had a snubbier nose and bigger eye pieces than the standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inflamed Appendix | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew back to Kansas City. There Mr. Whisenhunt himself developed, in quick succession, a toothache, ptomaine poisoning, blood-poisoning. At week's end wife and daughter were out of bed, Mr. Whisenhunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Whisenhunt's Woes | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...long been front-page news, was as much a part of Omaha as its stockyards. He first appeared in the news in 1916 when, at the age of six, he got diphtheria. Omaha health officers, going to the Goodman home, found Johnny sleeping with three other children in one bed, four more Goodman children in another bed in the same room. Mother Goodman, accustomed to peasant ways, refused to send Johnny to an isolation hospital or keep him from the other children. The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Jones | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Three Comrades shows how three men can marry a girl at the same time without jealousy or any loss of the unbreakable ties binding them together. Erich (Robert Taylor) is the only one who goes to bed with Patricia (Margaret Sullavan). but his comrades, who need something to live for, marry her in spirit. Otto (Franchot Tone), most practical of the three, accepts the world as he finds it. Gottfried (Robert Young) wants to change it. He belongs to a political society, and when he is shot by a gunman of no particular party stripe, Otto avenges him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 6, 1938 | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges the bed in a blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers; he is in no mood to fight. Overhead he hears the motor drone round and round. This little thimbleful of winged poison is not fooling; he doesn't seem to care who he attacks. And there'd certainly be the devil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

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