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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since she was born 20 years ago, Sylva Eugenie Davis of Kansas City has not been able to use her arms or legs. The nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing spastic paralysis (muscular rigidity). But Sylva was endowed with high courage. She learned to read, turned the pages of her books with her tongue. She used a typewriter by poking the keys with a pencil held between her teeth. With a brush between her teeth she tinted photographs, made drawings. She was careful of her appearance, applied her own cosmetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spastic Paralysis | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Died. Lyda Roberti, 28, blonde Polish-born actress; of acute nephritis; in Hollywood. Daughter of a clown, she won success by enthusiastic undulations and a mid-European accent, both on Broadway (You Said It, Roberta) and in films (Million Dollar Legs, The Kid From Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...with speeds over 800 m.p.h.-faster than the fastest airplanes (over 400 m.p.h.), than the fastest birds (over 100 m.p.h.), than the fastest land animal, the cheetah (70 m.p.h.). Most of this publicity seems to have sprung from the reports of Dr. Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, 74, an Ohio-born entomologist who now lives in Brazil. Although the flight of botflies was visible to Dr. Townsend only as a "brownish blur," he estimated their speeds at 400 yards per second (818 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Botfly Debunked | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Hollywood Hills bungalow till she learned English, then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into a ditch and been arrested because he had neglected to buy a license. Now living in Stamford, Conn., where he is writing a long history of socialism, Edmund Wilson last month married pretty, Seattle-born Mary McCarthy. Two years ago in the Nation Mary McCarthy summed up much younger-generation opinion when she described Edmund Wilson as the best of American critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Critical Spirit | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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