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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baldheaded, 51-year-old Baritone Friedrich Schorr of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera is a specialist in dignified Wagnerian Wotans. He almost never smiles. Last week, black-robed and bearded as Wagner's Flying Dutchman, he scowled his way through the second act, knelt with dignity upon the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flying Dustman | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ Polio is a cosmopolitan disease, heedless of climate, as deadly in the Arctic as on the Equator. But for some reason, more than half of all cases in the world occur in the U. S. and Canada, in the summertime. Reported cases in the U. S. from 1915 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ Contrary to popular opinion, no vaccine, serum or drug has yet been devised that will give immunity, check the progress of the disease, or prevent final paralysis. Most polio workers now believe that the virus enters the body through the nose. Two years ago, Dr. Edwin William Schultz of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

What Jimmy Bowen watched through his glasses and told about, flash by flash, for the next 13 minutes filled everyone's front pages next day-"The ship is moving now, rolling from side to side. There goes another explosion! The after turret has gone up. . . . She is going down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Tar Heel Editor is the first of four volumes in which the 77-year-old Ambassador to Mexico proposes to tell the whole of his long life. Taking him through his 30th year, it concerns itself somewhat with his boyhood (his mother's War memories, camp meetings, small-town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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