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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SCORES WINNING CRIMSON TOUCHDOWN ON LINE PLUNGE." It would be blazoned at the top of every sports page in the country. There might even be a picture of Vag, his face horribly contorted in a do-or-die grimace pressing his hand firmly into a prostrate opponent's face. And then walking across the Yard, he would hear the whispers of the awed Freshmen, "There he goes--Stonewall Vag they call him." Of course being a hero was convenient, but best of all it would mean the removal of a cross he had been bearing--none too regularly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/30/1942 | See Source »

...best fitted to resuscitate people, to bring them out of unconsciousness," insists Dr. Flagg, "is the man who already knows how to put them in." He takes as a personal challenge the fact that over 50,000 people die every year in the U.S. of asphyxiation. For years his Society for the Prevention of Asphyxial Death has been working, despite a lack of funds, for a wider knowledge of resuscitation techniques by laymen and especially doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Standardized Anesthesia | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...powerful directness, the play gives it meaning for each individual. A pleasant relief from the "all out" slush with which some business men, women's clubs, and just plain slackers rationalize their existence, it shows plainly that this "global" struggle is still a war in which young men chiefly die, and young women chiefly weep...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...special drum signature, like a radio program's theme song-a cryptic sentence full of jungle implications. Sample drum names: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing"; "The giant wood rat has no child, the house rat has no child"; "You'll die of witchcraft at midnight." Messages are addressed simply by tapping out the recipient's drum name. The sender's drum name follows, then the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drum Telegraphy | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...home, send a message to his wife to come in from her garden in the jungle and feed him. Message in drum code: "She is better than the daughter of other tribes, she who stands there. Oyono must not join the fighting, I don't want Oyono to die. Come walk quickly, quickly, I feel hunger not small." Dinner will be waiting when he gets home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drum Telegraphy | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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