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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brande moral emerges in the person of a modest little vaudeville actor named Eddie Kane (Jack Haley), brother of Winchell's secretary Patsy Kane (Patsy Kelly), who, when his sister gets him a radio audition, is so terrified of the microphone that he cannot make a sound. To cure himself of his psychosis, Eddie tries singing into a "dead mike." The microphone, not dead at all, is connected with the one on which the Bernie Band is broadcasting. Eddie's voice makes him instantly famed as "radio's phantom troubadour." Thereafter, Wake Up and Live consists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Also saluted for their applications of artificial fever to cure disease were these pioneers: Charles M. Carpenter & Stafford L. Warren of Rochester, N. Y., Clarence Adolph Neymann & Stafford Lennox Osborne of Evanston, Ill., Leland Earl Hinsie & Joseph Rogers Blalock of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fever Therapy | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Widener scattered about on it, he seeks consolation in the company of his old friend Keats. After a few lines of drowsy numbness, the world no longer looks so dark. Of late the correspondence to and about Fanny Brawne has taken the place of the sonnets as the cure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

Last week in Pennsylvania's Legislature, Representative Thomas Weidemann of Delaware County introduced a bill with the shortest title ("To Cure Lawyers' Mistakes") of any of the 1,201 measures filed in the Harrisburg House this session: "All mistakes by lawyers are hereby erased, but every one else shall be required to abide by the letter and spirit of the laws. This statute shall work prospectively and retroactively forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Cure All | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...drove a crowbar clear through his head. In Louisville lives a woman who had the front lobes of her brain removed on account of an abscess of the brain. In fact, Dr. Kosterlitz was sanguine about his patient. Said he: "If she lives, the shock of the injury may cure her. Such things have happened in epileptic cases." But removal of the spike permitted a hemorrhage in Dema Dunlap's brain, from which four days later she died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spiked Brain | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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