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Some sulfur compounds cause body cells to grow extraordinarily fast, and are used regularly in medicine to hasten the healing of sores and wounds. Such substances may in some way be connected with the unknown physiological accidents which give rise to cancer. On the other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lankenau Experimenter | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

The authors of Red, Hot and Blue may have slipped, but the performers manage to hold the altitude of their past achievements. As "Nails" Duquesne, a rough female diamond who thinks that a man with two wives is committing bigotry, Ethel Merman lifts a brazen voice, rolls a comic eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

The best portrait in To My Father is that of Dr. Chastain, whose plaint was always that he could "never understand these people," and whose lack of acceptance of Northern ways made him vulnerable to his enemies. Wrhen he encountered a frightful scandal in the hospital-the chief of staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Son | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Result. Unlike the trade treaty with Canada which evoked a frightful roar from U. S. producers (TIME, Nov. 25), the French treaty caused almost no stir at all. Few of the U. S. products on which France lowered the duty have serious competition from French agriculture and industry. U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Champagne & Chassis | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

When, in 1873, an obscure young Belgian missionary priest named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of Molokai meant nothing to the outside world. Molokai is an island to which the Hawaiian Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Return of Damien | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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