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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knives & Needles. Frightened sick people in the Ukraine kept on trudging to Comrade Dr. Nelski despite his nickname, "The Slasher." With 600 major operations to his credit up to last week, he reigned as Chief Surgeon of a group of Soviet hospitals at Kiev. Nurses sometimes fainted at the gory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

She would receive nobody before she left, least of all Supreme Court Justice Constantin Saratzeanu, though he humbly sought an audience. Grandmother Queen Marie could not forgive Justice Saratzeanu for having been elected by Parliament to a vacancy among the three Regents of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 21), a vacancy which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Second Dynasty? | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Cornell could not put anything in Wittmer's way when he snaked a kick-off past them for a touchdown, but after that excitement Princeton rooters sat drearily while red jerseys went through centre, guard, tackle for safe gains. Cornell 13, Princeton 7.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Welcome Danger (Paramount). Like all Harold Lloyd's comedies, this is built around a character fundamentally sensible and likable but who seems crazy because of some predominant trait or mania. Botany is the current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

In Springfield, N. J., an automobile proceeded down the road in a manner that interested a motorcycle patrolman. Drawing alongside, he found Driver Frank Urban, his hands off the wheel, peering into a compass in his lap.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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