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...Hollywood comeback) rather than Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske (deceased) who "transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell"? . . . Does TIME deliberately make such errors to discover how many readers will detect them...
...hobby was he able to capitalize to the full on his shrewdness and his talents. His interest in Muscle Shoals led him to aid the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway when that stoop-shouldered, sharp-witted little oldster was probing lobbies in 1929-30. And he was quick to detect the political profit for little Senators with big ears...
Said Dr. Sheehan: "When a competent plastic surgeon performs this sort of an operation no scar remains which a photograph will reveal. Only a sharp eye can detect the line of the incision in vivo...
First Sign of Palsy. Paralysis agitans, or shaky palsy, is ordinarily an affliction of old age. But often it follows an attack of inflammation of the brain. To help detect the earliest signs of this palsy and combat it, Dr. Abraham Maurice Ornsteen of Philadelphia offered a suggestion which anyone can try in his own living room. The suspect holds both hands before his face, with all fingers clenched except fore finger and thumb. He then rapidly pats each forefinger against each thumb. Normally, the twitching is symmetrical in the two hands. In the abnormal state "one notes a definite...
...epileptic's skull is a firm barrier against studying his affliction. However, Drs. Hallowell Davis, 39, and Frederic Andrews Gibbs, 32, of Harvard have managed to detect intelligible electrical messages from the brains of epileptics through that barrier. Last week Drs. Davis & Gibbs went to Detroit to tell the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology how they received the epileptic messages and what they were...