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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gigantic hat, he whose shadow has so often swept across the screen of the University, has come from Hollywood, and he has shown that the mania for handling big receptions in a big way is not a growth that flowers only in the adult mind. The germ is implanted in the child's first consciousness, and flourishes from that time on. But though the mature can claim no monopoly in its possession, they alone are able to release it install its dazzling light. The top hats, the mile-long parade, and the tons of confetti are theirs alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP | 6/5/1928 | See Source »

...lasted four years and there were no deaths reported during that time. The vaccination itself is reported harm less, but it must be administered within the first ten days of life. Last week the French Academy of Medicine buzzed with attack and innuendo. Professor Lignieres of Buenos Aires had come out flat-footedly against B. C. G., claiming that tuberculous infection could result from inoculation with the vaccine. Three sessions were devoted to the controversy. During the second Dr. Calmette calmly presented statistics in de fense of his vaccine. There was no single instance of tuberculosis development in an inoculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis & Babies | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...women, the case is being tried by the Essex County Circuit of the Supreme Court while still pending in chancery. There is little precedent to point the way legally. There is even less precedent to point the way medically. The Disease. From the Greek, necrosis (making dead) has come its ghoulish name, radium necrosis. The Cause. The paint contained radium and mesothorium salts which continually shoot out Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays. Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Chief Medical Examiner of Essex County found 95% of these to be Alpha rays. Most of the paint the girls swallowed was eliminated through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Paintbrush | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...those razors and blades. In six years after buying these brands American Safety Razor spent $4,000,000 more on advertising. Therefore its officials were vexed with International Safety Razor for selling similar products.* They sued and expected to win. But International's lawyers thundered that American did not come into court "with clean hands." In support of this charge, they presented certain of American's advertisements to the court. One advertisement read: "Each is equipped with blades of the keenest edge ?Gem Double Life Blades retail 7 for 50 cents." Another read: "Ever-Ready Radio blades possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Safety Razors | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...found in almost every town, full of onion-eating opera lovers gazing at tenors who yodel and choke. El Teatro Colon is an enormous building of marble and white cement, facing a palmed piazza. In it there is room for 3,500 people to sit; these all come invariably in evening dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Buenos Aires | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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