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...Sage of the Age, was confronted with a mass of telegrams from all parts of the world, congratulating him on his most successful season and wishing him luck against Yale. Struck down with astonishment, Dr. Huey's trance went out of control and he swooned. At latest reports his frantic colleagues were dosing him with a variety of medicines chiefly notable for their high alcoholic content. Prospects for an early recovery seemed very dark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fear for Life of Sage of Age, Down and Out With Overdose of Strong Waters | 11/23/1935 | See Source »

...Altadena, frantic nurses moved 60 patients from La Vina Sanitarium before the $150,000 buildings collapsed in embers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Scorched Los Angeles | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...husband heard her frantic screams, lugged her and a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy, who suffered only a few slight bruises on his head, from the 40-ft. pit. Afraid to do anything else, he wrapped wife and child in blankets, drove both twelve miles to a hospital where Dr. John Franklin Foster, child specialist, put them in good condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Well Born | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Lilliputians are to Gulliver, caper mysteriously in front of him. When a stage manager hits a midget with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic little king hangs himself on the hands of a gigantic clock. Then Gulliver wakes up at the picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Major game in the Southwest Conference was Rice v. Texas at Austin. Between halves, Jesse Jones, Governor Allred, Elliott Roosevelt put on sweaters to lead a snake dance. Distinguished by frantic forward passing, long penalties for roughing, clipping and slugging, four touchdowns in the last quarter, it ended 28-to-19, for Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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