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...Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends of an artery together: put draw strings through each end of the artery: pull until the circular edges acquire a triangular shape; bend the flaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Carrel's Man | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...plays the soprano saxophone, next feted hundreds of guests at a champagne breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel where "Momma" proved a hostess of surprising aplomb. Sarawak's laughing Eliza gave her husband a gold cigaret case, received a mink coat, disappeared in their snorting Sunbeam car for a three-week honeymoon at Juanles-Pins. Later she will play a 17-week engagement in Great Britain's provinces, jazz-singing with the Roy Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: Jazzman's Pearl | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigious Crop | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...Etawah (1 :59 1/4) and His Majesty (1 :59 1/4), for the past ten years. His silks are green & white. He wears glasses, smokes cigars, talks in monosyllables. After last week's race, Greyhound was led back to his stall, unharnessed, and fed by his stable boy a cigaret which he ate with relish. Undefeated in five trots this year, the only thing left for Greyhound to do to prove himself the equal of Peter Manning is to break the latter's world record of a mile in 1:56 1/4. Said Driver Palin: "Mr. Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hambletonian | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...Around his estate is a high iron fence guarded by watchmen who question all who attempt to enter. Deaf, Mr. Timken expresses himself in curious ways. On his office floor is a fine thick carpet. It is said that when something displeases him, he stalks the floor scattering live cigaret butts. No one is allowed to pick them up, for later Mr. Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence of successful rages. In gentler moods Chairman Timken is generous with his money. He pays high wages, has provided food and coal for old employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bearing Man | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

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