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...wish to correct a very serious error in your article in this week's TIME [Dec. 3] concerning antiserum against black widow spider venom. The serum has not been used on any human cases, nor would I sanction its use as so far developed. It is highly potent in the rat, 1/10 cubic centimeter (about two drops) will completely protect rats against eight average lethal doses when given immediately, and 1 cubic centimeter given three and one-half hours later will give prompt recovery against the same dose...
...Shumlin (Grand Hotel) knows, plays about homosexuals or children seldom fail. To take the part of impish Mary he looked no farther than Miss McGee who had played in the U. S. stage version of Mädchen In Uniform. Miss McGee, who squeezes the last drop of perverse venom from her characterization, is a reed-slim actress of 23 who can pass on any stage for 13. Born of British parents in South Africa, she was taken to Canada when young, went to the University of Toronto. She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick...
...inventing his serum, Professor D'Amour mildly poisoned rats with small doses of black widow venom. Eventually the rats became immune to the venom. Serum from the blood of the rats cured a vineyard worker three hours after a black widow...
Otto Dix is a home-loving father of three, a cafe frequenter who hates to talk war. He saves part of his venom for his frequent studies of circuses, trollops, murders, pregnancies. So pungent was his art that Adolf Hitler removed him last year from a lucrative professorship in Dresden's Kunst Akademie. He has, how ever, painted many a kindly portrait of children, one of which is owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller...
...Securities Act is to be found in the effort?the necessary and no longer escapable effort?to make finance more responsible. There is to be no vindictiveness in its interpretation, no concealed punishment to those who must live under it. There are no grudges to satisfy; no venom which needs victims. . . . Only those who see things crookedly will find it harsh. The commission will make war ... on any who sell securities by fraud or misrepresentation...