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...Prophet. In case it should ever be argued that this native Congress does not represent any considerable number of the Indian people, Mr. Gandhi has secured the attendance of some 60,000 Congressmen at each normal meeting. They met last week in a swiftly-constructed bamboo and tent city near the village of Faizpur, 200 mi. outside Bombay, and the Mahatma laid aside for this occasion his recent preoccupation with the special problems of India's Untouchables and village industries. Mr. Gandhi now concerned himself and the Congress concerned itself with deciding whether to: 1) support or struggle against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...finish, Mr. Brisbane was tired out. His son Seward furnished the final paragraph, the first writing not actually by Arthur Brisbane ever to appear in the daily editorial column he had turned out for 39 years. On Christmas morning, the sick old editor's physicians prepared an oxygen tent, but could not use it, for Death had come to Arthur Brisbane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of Brisbane | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Commented Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach, Manhattan pneumotherapist who is largely responsible for the use of oxygen to treat weak hearts (TIME, April 6, 1931): "Accidents from fire in oxygen tents or in oxygen rooms are extremely rare. When they do occur, they are caused by some reckless action on the part of the patient, such as lighting cigarets. This man must have lit a cigaret. The theory that a spark might have flown from the motor over to the oxygen tent is untenable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fatal Gases | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Next caller at the Androvsky tent is their mutual friend Count Anteoni (Basil Rathbone). He tells Domini what her husband is and she tells Boris that she knows his secret. For the next 20 minutes on the screen, Boris struggles with his lower nature. When last seen he is padding uphill to the monastery. Domini is driving off alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

While waiting to enter Mogul's tent, reporters were requested to inscribe on a piece of paper one question, and only one, which interrogation he was to fold and touch off with a match immediately upon entering. The question was: What will be the outcome of the Two Women Parietal Rule at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clairvoyant in Keith's Grand Lounge Predicts Abolition of Parietal Ruling | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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