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Prime sample of Nazi conjuring at the anti-Schuschnigg exhibit at Tulln last week was a goggling, cadaver-like effigy of the former Chancellor cruelly tagged "Comical Kurt." Elsewhere, Nazi investigators were tirelessly conjuring up a case to link Kurt un-comically with the execution in 1934 of a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anschluss Art | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

In San Francisco, an anonymous doctor makes the rounds of poorhouses, reformatories, public hospitals, asylums and jails. Each year he selects 30 to 40 specimens for 472 medical students of Stanford and the University of California. Cost of transportation, preservation and storage averages $10 a cadaver. San Francisco's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cadavers | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Chicago medical schools, which get their anatomical specimens from public institutions, burn their remains. That practice seems to be delicately tied up with a legendary incident which occurred before Illinois passed its law legitimizing the supply of cadavers to schools, and which many a Chicago doctor likes to relate. Two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cadavers | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Lyons turned out in the January American Mercury a dispassionate, detailed six-point analysis of how it happens that in the Soviet Union there is so much abject confessing of whatever it would do the Dictator good to have confessed. Mr. Lyons, veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Old & New Bolsheviks | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Undertaker Harry H. Shaw of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of the air rates committee of the National Funeral Directors Association, revealed that he had been dickering for years for special rates with airlines. But Undertaker Howard Rowland of St. Louis was the convention sensation, bringing a cadaver for autopsy in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tickets to Heaven | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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