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When Lenin died in 1924, an autopsy was performed to spike rumors that he had died of syphilis or poison. Because the autopsy cut the blood vessels through which embalming fluid ordinarily is forced, some new technique had to be devised if Lenin was to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tattooed Mummy | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Never in U.S. history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John O'Donnell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damned Lie | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...back and committing suicide on a million windshields. Theaters boasted: "Cool Inside." The ice was about gone from high western lakes. Crab grass was invading lawns, screen doors already needed repairs, school was out and at least 53,487 small fry had been stung by bees or splotched by poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Super-Colossal | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...fruit trees: Don't use. Because DDT is a cumulative poison and apparently injures some plants, it is unsafe to use on most fruits and vegetables until further tests have been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: This Summer--DDT | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

When the news of Italy's surrender finally comes, San Fernando celebrates. Farkas' Italian friend is in fact a Communist, and sets up shop as the local commissar. Rumors fly fast: Mussolini has killed himself; Hitler has taken poison; the British will arrive any minute, accompanied by the Chief Rabbi of London and the entire Navy. San Fernando strings up a few Fascists, hangs out homemade Allied flags, dances in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in San Fernando | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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