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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down-to-earth is Playwright Howard's tale of an elderly Italian winegrower in the Napa Valley who courts a San Francisco waitress by mail, palming off his handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

One of the agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kickback | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

High over the silver Hudson, in uptown Manhattan, stands a giant's village of towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Within a year, Dr. Putnam hopes to use the magnificent resources of the Institute for large scale clinical work in 1) multiple sclerosis, a mysterious nerve-crippling disease, probably twice as prevalent as infantile paralysis; 2) paralysis agitans, a lingering, incurable shaking palsy; 3) epilepsy (known to modernists as "convulsions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Brain Waves. Chief of the Institute's brain-wave station is young, German-born Dr. Paul Frederick Adam Hoefer, who came from Boston with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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