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Colonel Candler Cobb, head of the New York City Selective Service System, yesterday said the Lubell twins, Jonathan W. and David L., will not have their draft deferments canceled immediately...
...Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides. Developed by Drs. Theodore Koppanyi and Joseph Fazekas of Washington, D.C., the pills contain standard barbiturates and an added safety factor, pentylenetetrazol. A powerful nerve stimulant, the safety factor counteracts the depressant effect of too much barbiturate, and long before the goofball addict drifts into euphoria or the would-be suicide passes out, pentylenetetrazol causes the unhappy user to vomit his medicine...
...deal more familiar one, and the two neither run very well in harness nor altogether keep to the road. Tabori's scene is Budapest in 1930; his atmosphere that of an incipient police state; his chief characters a small boy (Brandon de Wilde) and his father (Lee J. Cobb). The boy inhabits a mental world swarming with such heroes as Sherlock Holmes, Hoot Gibson and the Scarlet pimpernel. But his chief hero is his father, a schoolmaster who has been blacklisted for unorthodox opinions, and who has lost his backbone along with...
...then dropped from the picture itself. Though the family story has its own realistic interest, it is never made real. Mixing and garnishing his moods at will, Tabori achieved vivid scenes but an unfocused play. The production and acting are uneven also, though in his best scenes Actor Cobb is brilliant...
...Gettysburg, Pa. or on his way there. But the Western Maryland Railway, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, dug out of the National Archives a picture which it believes shows Lincoln on his way to Gettysburg. The picture had gone unnoticed because it was labeled wrongly. Miss Josephine Cobb, photo chief of the National Archives, isn't sure that the whiskered man is Lincoln, but she has established that it was taken in late 1863 at Hanover Junction, Pa. (on the rail line to Gettysburg) by famed Photographer Mathew Brady...