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The American Review of Soviet Medicine, which reported Cherepanov's new lease on life, stated that there have been 51 such revivals among Red Army wounded. Twelve lived on out of danger and 39 died again from their severe organic injuries. The constant danger in such revivals: when a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 4 1/2 Minutes of Death | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

On the eve of his marriage, the mildly dimwitted Earl of Harpenden provides a potted U.S. lieutenant with a lodging for the night and a discarded ladylove. The lieutenant, however, mistakes the earl's fiancée (Anne Burr) for the fancy woman, and the two promptly fall in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

On the air, most of the comedy radiates from Jane, hopelessly dimwitted, who every time she opens her mouth puts her foot in the microphone. Her nitwitticisms are mostly malaprops: "He's a ragged individualist." . . . "Time wounds all heels." . . . "We're insufferable friends." . . . "Familiarity breeds attempt."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Aces Move | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Because of the intense loyalty and faith the duped give the dupers, the Government has had a hard time running the fraud to earth. Two years ago at Sioux City, Iowa, Oscar Merrill Hartzell was convicted of using the mails to defraud Drakesters, was given ten years in Leavenworth. Hartzell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dupes & Drake | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

"Theodore Roosevelt Jr. may yet become a governor," said a press despatch from Washington last week. The governorship meant was not that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: may 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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