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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted his arms, gracefully dived off to join his dying family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Spook House. For the multitude who enjoy detective stories and mystery plays in which ghastly white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...there observing. Said he: "I did not observe that this treatment [injection of an extract derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands] had any beneficial result and I would certainly advise against any patient going there in hope of a cure. ... A cancer cure . . . must cause cancer to disappear ... for at least five years. The Coffey treatment has been applied for only three or four months and it is impossible to judge the permanency of its effect from that." In line with this warning of Dr. Simpson have been similar warnings from Drs. Coffey & Humber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coffey Clinic Crowds | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...only to record the professors speaking, but also to show them illustrating their experiments and making their demonstrations of scientific materials, and we expect also to depict the subjects about which they are talking. The studio and recording machines have been so arranged that, although the professor may gradually disappear, his voice continues, describing the scenes which replace him on the screen. The silent films of the Foundation have met with such splendid response whenever shown at the Harvard clubs that we are certain these films, affording intellectual content in varied fields and enlivened by the leading personalities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Makes Possible Laboratory, Studio, Offices for Film Foundation | 4/16/1930 | See Source »

...fall these symptoms disappear only to come back the following spring with increased intensity. As the disease progresses the sick one becomes dried and parched like a mummy, with bones protruding at macabre angles. Muscles waste, body motions become slow and languid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poor People's Vitamin | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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