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...first six issues, for example, Time carried articles on the doings of Parliament, the state of the nation's defenses, profiles on Disraeli and George Sala, one of the first roving correspondents. There was an article on Queen Victoria's Windsor apartments by an anonymous palace stringman, a first-rate TiMEstyle piece on James Marwood, the public hangman; a survey of drunkenness in Britain, several articles by a Time reporter on industrial relations and strikes, a blast at England's Royal Academy...
TIME Inc.'s Copenhagen stringman, Kai Schou, first heard of antabus at a lecture at Copenhagen's medical association. There Dr. Oluf Martensen-Larsen, a specialist in the treatment of alcoholism, told publicly for the first time about the results his clinic had been getting from the drug. He had volunteered to try it on his patients after Dr. Jacobsen had finished experimenting with it in his laboratory...
...back as a spy." These jittery reports proved baseless when Correspondent Emanuel defended himself wittily before a Fascist court in which he was accused of nothing more serious than "obtaining" information of a military character. This information had been innocently posted to Bureau Chief Emanuel by a minor Italian stringman acting on his own initiative in ignorance of present drastic Italian war news curbs. Admitting that he received this letter. Correspondent Emanuel chirped at the President of the Special Tribunal for Defense of the Realm: "If I should be so disrespectful of your office as to dare to punch...
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