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...Cure. In Nashville, a moonshiner's prison sentence was commuted when he wrote a letter to the District Judge: "All I hear is the boys talking of robbing banks and cracking safes and killing people. That sure gets on my nerves. If you will let me out of here, I'll never make no more whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...simple cure for railroad collisions has been suggested by Orestes H. Caldwell, ex-Federal Radio Commissioner, now editor of Electronic Industries. His cure: two-way radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Streamlined Railroads | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...fever and other serious infections, 2) "save many thousands of years in human life annually" by preventing recurrence of cancer after operation, 3) help schizophrenic and other insane patients, probably by improving the health of nerve fibers, 4) fight rheumatism ("against acute arthritis it is a quick and certain cure"), hardening of the arteries and several other chronic diseases, 5) speed healing of wounds, burns, frostbite injuries. But they warn that ACS is harmful in certain heart diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sensational Serum | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...cheek (he said he was Swiss, called him self de Vaudois) was also curious about Bastineau. He wondered why so many peasants were knitting mittens with an identical, peculiar pattern; why peasants came from miles around to lay food on a lonely mountain shrine; why the old cure's sermons were almost unintelligible to strangers. Whenever Fenton started up the mountains in search of Bastineau, she found de Vaudois at her heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pot-Boyler | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...mountain hut he confronted Fenton triumphantly, explained that it was all an anti-Nazi plot. Escaping Axis prisoners were given the mittens be cause the curious pattern was a map. The food at the shrine was for Bastineau. The cure's cryptic sermons kept the villagers informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pot-Boyler | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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