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St. Louis' sleeping sickness is one of the two forms of encephalitis for which the causes are known.* The other is a Japanese type. Other, puzzling forms are: epidemic encephalitis, which Dr. Margaret Holden of Columbia University believes is also caused by a virus; Australian X disease; encephalitis following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleeping Sickness | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Newsreels. Immediately after the King's broadcast from Buckingham Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Norfolk went to a private projection room in London's West End to view the 7,000 ft. of film made in the Abbey. A close-up of Queen Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Circulation: 300,000,000 | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

In his own name the King is a paid subscriber to Cavalcade, the British newsmagazine most candid in reporting the Royal family. In the eyes of good middle-class people like Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin this magazine is "most vulgar." Recently a close friend of George VI rang up the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Golden Frame | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Up popped Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly of Louisville, famed among neurologists and psychiatrists for his post-operative treatment of a woman, who, despite an excision of a big chunk of her brain, remained placid and intelligent (TIME, May 27, 1935). Exulted bold Dr. Ackerly:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Southern Doctors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Boswell's deleted material was not sensational. Starting the Journal soon after Johnson's death, he sent his copy to the printer page by page, found before he reached the middle that his book was getting too long. He made some revisions and excisions and his friend Edmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boswell in Full | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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