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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the night was clear when this picture was taken is shown by the short, concentric arcs on the dark background of the sky-star trails made during the photographer's five-minute exposure.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pillars of Fire | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week the fans near went past themselves. They cheered lustily for Ralph Oves, Lincoln's towering center, who stands out in the line like a moon on a dark night (Oves is the only white player in Negro football). They set off firecrackers, one of which, mistaken for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Templeton learns his scripts by having them read to him 20 times, follows them during broadcasts by touch-cues, called "zicks," given by his manager, Stanley North. North puts his right hand on Templeton's left shoulder, squeezes when he is to speak or play, whispers the first few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Templeton Time | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

* Example, by Double-Talker Murray ("Looney") Lewis during a Fred Allen broadcast about the New York World's Fair Hall of Pharmacy: "Ilfus on the bildad with just enough reticulation on the nostrum to allograph Ipana, Minit-Rub and Sal Hepatica."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Villainy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Death reported. Norman Bethune, 49, Canadian doctor who successfully developed the handy wartime trick of storing blood in wine molds and milk bottles, using it for emergency transfusions as much as three weeks later; of septicemia contracted while operating; in Wutai-shan, China. Dr. Bethune joined the His-pano-Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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