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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount's executive committee, served notice that his company had not only jumped on television's bandwagon but was out to do the driving. He announced that telecasting from DuMont's transmitter now under construction at Montclair, N. J. would start in January, that Paramount had taken on the job of making cinema shorts, other films to be televised on the DuMont shows. But DuMont receiving sets are already being offered for sale in Manhattan stores for $395 ($150 to $250 is the reported mass production price). For demonstration they receive...
...Brooklyn Tablet, official organ of the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y.. .is a monolithic weekly which is edited, as if with mallet & chisel, by Dr. Patrick Scanlan. Last week, for the third successive time, the Tablet gave its wide-eyed readers news about a plot which, if authenticated, would have made every front page in the land. Villain of the plot was Professor Thurman Wesley Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. The plot itself: "starting a national religion and striving to control all others...
...Rochester, N. Y., the three-month-old Evening News (TIME, Aug. 1) made even better progress in breaking the monopoly inherited by Publisher Frank Gannett when Hearst withdrew in 1937. Although the News was not expected to break even until Christmas, last week it was reported to have $6,000 of profits in the bank...
...morning last week in Orangeburg, N. Y.'s huge Rockland State Hospital, 23 of its 4,700 patients stood fidgeting in line, with sleeves rolled up to their elbows waiting for their weekly injections of neoarsphenamine. Nurse Catherine Irvine handed Dr. Samuel Louis Leffel a syringe of bright yellow fluid, and he jabbed the needle into the prominent elbow vein of the Negro standing before him. Then he moved down the line, gave injections to the next four patients. As he poised a needle above the sixth arm, the Negro fell to the floor in convulsions. Just...
Before the third and fourth Rockland patients died last week, Dr. John Robert Ross, superintendent of the Harlem Valley State Hospital at Wingdale. N. Y., re ported that Nurse Arthur Sandberg had absentmindedly given a patient one-and-a-half ounces of poisonous bromide and chloral (an effective sedative in small doses), instead of a half-ounce of epsom salts, which had been prescribed as a daily laxative. When the patient died three State and local investigating committees promptly descended upon the hospital...