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...Maria. Heifetz's earnings for his twelve Russian performances amounted to $10,000 in rubles, none of which could he take out of the country. He earned half that much playing half an hour over the radio last Sunday night to advertise such Lehn & Fink products as Lysol, Pebeco toothpaste, Hinds' Honey & Almond Cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fiddlers in Russia | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...advertising films of the type alarming to Producer Castle have been produced only by Warner Bros, and Paramount. Paramount samples: a series entitled Movie Memories, comprising old newsreels, early shots of current stars, by courtesy of Liggett & Myers; My Merrie Oldsmobile, song cartoon; Jolt for General Germ, cartoon extolling Lysol. Warner Bros, samples: one-reel plays advertising Chesterfields; On the Slopes of the Andes, a coffee cultivation panorama to further Great Atlantic & Pacific grocery sales. Warner Bros, have contracted for a dozen or so more advertising shorts, Paramount for 50. Advertising films which cost advertisers $12,000 a reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinemadvertising | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with buttons. Last week he discovered a new source of false food, his fellow inmates. He would pounce upon an unwary victim, trip him up and, snarling, chew off every button, every fastening. Replete, he would release the poor fellow and would run, whimpering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Magpie Man | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Said he later: "She was such a pretty baby, I hated like hell to see her die. When I got home I washed my mouth with lysol. I was a damn fool to do that. I couldn't eat for two days. No, I wasn't afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diphtheria Hero | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...Bacteriologist Henry Spahlinger heard a sudden explosion and felt himself splashed with slime. The container in which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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