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...doctors of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary were having more than their share of trouble. Young Joseph Lister, disciple of France's Louis Pasteur, was not only filling their ears with chatter about invisible somethings called "germs," he was also filling their stately hospital with the horrid stench of carbolic acid-a so-called "antiseptic," used hitherto for cleansing the Glasgow sewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unbowed Head | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Clark, put it over with a notable absence of affectation. The picture's single, sustained combat sequence is keenly written and filmed, fiercely exciting, with its shrilling obbligato of the enemy's "Mreen yoo dyee (Marine, you die!) Mreen tonight yoo dyee!" set against the jabbing technical chatter of the frantically overworked machine-gun crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...dimpled blind boy visited the base regularly during the winter, and made a great hit with his music, his chatter and his imitations of Jimmy Durante. In return the Americans taught him to play boogie and sing Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? Then they decided to give him a real education. (A Boston businessman is helping pay the costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mission to America | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...story is like a silly but lovable old friend who suddenly turns up after long absence with an expensive new wardrobe and a novel line of chatter. A lavish Technicolor production, and deadpan acting by the principal players, give the nostalgic old fable a simpleminded freshness and charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Japs came, life at the American Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai was tolerably peaceful. From across the fence drifted a medley of sounds: the shrill screams of a little Chinese girl whose feet were being bound for the first time; the cries in the Roman Catholic insane asylum ; the chatter of Seventh-Day Baptists; the heavy snores of the local opium addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childhood in China | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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