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Dr. Schwab's laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital is filled with electrical medical, and photographic apparatus. He has mares of long cable to carry brain waves from room to room. The patient is isolated and insulated in a compartment sorrounded by wire screens to keep out electrical and other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Research Man Devises Brain-Wave Machine for Studying Fits | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Crash experts of CAA's Air Safety Board attributed Braniff's crash to the left engine's throwing a cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rueful Receiver | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

When the engines had been warmed up, Lieutenant Ben S. Kelsey, one of the Army's ace test pilots, buckled his parachute leg-straps, climbed into her independent midships compartment (she is twin-tailed) and took off. Half an hour later he landed, and delighted Henry Arnold issued a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sleek, Fast and Luckless | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Died. Henri Anatole ("Papa") Deibler, 76, wealthy perfumer, who as "Monsieur de Paris" (traditional name for France's executioner) pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career; of a cold; in Paris. As well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

>In Beverly Hills, Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle Sr., 71, onetime Chicago nickelodeon proprietor and retired head of Universal Pictures Corp., set about trying to interest U. S. can manufacturers in his patent on self-heating hot dogs on a royalty basis. Demonstrated to the press at a buffet preview last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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