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Handle Dept. In Westport, Conn., Howard Gagg married Matilda Jester. In Camp Kilmer, N.J., the Army returned a pistol confiscated from C. E. Outlaw of Guntown, Miss...
...Matilda M. Brooks, a University of California physiologist, discovered in 1932 that the drug known as methylene blue counteracts the oxygen starvation caused by certain poisons (cyanide, carbon monoxide). Acting as a catalyst, the drug improves oxygen absorption by the red blood cells, thereby helping the body to make the most of a curtailed oxygen supply. Recently Dr. Brooks journeyed to Peru, where travelers in the high Andes are subject to soroche, a common fainting sickness caused by lack of oxygen (TIME, June 23). Dr. Brocks took some medical students up to an altitude of 15,000 feet and gave...
Moments later, a telephone rang in Independence, Mo. Sprightly Miss Matilda Brown, 75, who had taught high-school English to Harry Truman and Charley Ross, answered it, heard an operator say: "The President of the United States is calling." Said the President: "You'll be glad to know that Charley Ross has agreed to work with me as press secretary...
...Allied convoys has made her one of South Africa's great wartime personalities (TIME, Nov. 15). Perla, known affectionately to thousands of soldiers and sailors as Durban's Lady in White, sings God Bless America for Yanks, There'll Always Be an England for Tommies, Waltzing Matilda for Aussies...
...January midday sun poured down on Monrovia's Matilda Newport Square, named for Liberia's Joan of Arc. Sweat trickled down 20,000 Liberian backs, stood in heavy drops on the foreheads of notables who were clustered in the shade of a palm-leaf booth. Five little girls in white-frilled ginghams held wreaths emblazoned with the names of Liberia's five counties. Six brass bands blared hard and the Liberian National Choir waited its turn. The tiny African Republic, founded for freed slaves from the U.S., was ready for the inaugural of its 17th President...