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...satisfaction and bid for these by sensational means." Largest group of iodine drinkers, added Dr. Moore, are females between 14 and 20 (they are home near a medicine cabinet most of the time). Largest group of males are between 26 and 30. Whether they know that an ordinary gulp of iodine is seldom fatal, Dr. Moore could not say. He inclined to think not, however, since druggists glue a suggestive skull and bones to every iodine bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Iodine Suicides | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Three 3½-year-old female elephants enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Capers | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...explanation, according to Lieutenant Waterman: Southerners are in no hurry, take time to chew; the hard water of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains and of Tennessee's Cumberland Range contains minerals which help to build strong teeth. Easterners are always on the go, gulp and gobble their relatively soft food and water, lack exercise and fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Teeth | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Town Hall month before last, few U. S. concertgoers had ever heard of her. Last week, as Soprano Pitzinger finished her first U. S. tour, delighted critics went back a whole generation for their comparisons, acclaimed her as the greatest Lieder singer since Wüllner, Gulp and Gerhardt. Thirty-two-year-old Soprano Pitzinger learned Lieder as a girl from Bohemian peasants, studied more with Vienna's famed Lieder composer, Joseph Marx. Five years ago she braved a Berlin recital, became an overnight sensation. In London last May she was thrilled to sing in Beethoven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lieder Singer | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Heink, Lotte Lehmann) have ever satisfied the connoisseurs. Most great Lieder singers are specialists. Greatest of them in recent years have been: i) Dr. Ludwig Wüllner, who started life as a professor of philology in Münster, toured the U. S. in 1908-10; 2) Julia Gulp, a Dutch contralto (originally a violinist as well as a singer), who visited the U. S. in 1913; and 3) Elena Gerhardt, a pupil of the late great Conductor Artur Nikisch, who came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lieder Singer | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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