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Army Life. Suing her Army sergeant husband for divorce in Miami, Lieut. Betty Rachford La Macchia, an Army nurse, charged that he was cruel to her because he was jealous of her rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...world before 1922 is the disease now called granulopenia. During the past three years it killed 1,300 U. S. people, mostly housewives. Physicians, nurses and their families suffered high mortality. Rarely has a poor person died of the disease, rarely a Negro. Finding out why became Dr. Roy Rachford Kracke's job at Emory University, Atlanta. Clever reasoning led him to suspect certain new-fangled pain-killing drugs manufactured from benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them. Doctors get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors in Cleveland | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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