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...Hollywood, M-G-M Director Chester M. Franklin worried about the increasing number of deaths from sleeping tablets. He got an idea, talked it over with Pharmacist Herschel R. Hoskins. Why not put something in the tablets to make them harmless? The result, which Franklin hopes to patent: a sleeping tablet with a built-in dose of that old emetic, ipecac. Taking up to three tablets would cause sleep; more than three, vomiting...
...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...
Today, on the side of the hill that was Selkirk's lookout is a bronze tablet, put up in his memory by the captain and officers of a British ship which visited the island in 1868. Hard by the beach where Crusoe found Friday is now a fishing village, San Juan Bautista. In it live most of the 560 Juan Fernándians. Sixty live on the smaller island of Más-a-Fuera, 90 miles farther out. Santa Clara, third of the group, is uninhabited...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, already memorialized in bronze in London's Grosvenor Square, will also have a place among England's immortals in Westminster Abbey. In the works: a tablet which will bear an inscription being composed jointly by Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee...
...tablet as outlined in the new suggestion, is first of all, nearer financial reason at $60,000 than the former $200,000 figure. A list of the war dead will in any case be a part of any memorial, and the location in the Memorial Church has seemed wise to many alumni...