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...Amazing is the chemists' progress against bugs. Every soldier now carries a tin of powder (pyrethrum plus a synthetic insecticide called IN-930) with which he can deflea himself in a jiffy, a tiny vial of fumigator (methyl bromide) with which he can quickly delouse his clothes in a sealed paper...
Reading this "practical anthology of scathing remarks" is somewhat like sampling a vial of concentrated formic acid: only professional scorpions or the very insensitive will care for more than small sips...
...keeping as many guilty men away from it as he can until reformed by the example of a noble younger brother. High point in the picture, as it was in legend the low point in the career of Lawyer Fallon, is a scene in which he tosses off a vial of poison before the jury to show how harmless the State's evidence is, hurries out of the courtroom after the acquittal to get his stomach pumped. One remarkable feature of The Man Who Talked Too Much was a suggestion by Warner's publicity department to theatre owners...
Nominee Knox stopped, stared. Heads turned, feet shuffled as the owner of the voice, Mrs. Mabel West, 39-year-old Philadelphian in Los Angeles for a visit, scrambled over laps to the aisle. There she proceeded to raise a small vial of iodine to her lips, drink, fall writhing to the floor. Later at the hospital, where she was found to be only slightly damaged, iodine-stained Accuser West speculated: "Maybe I just got hysterical...
...made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris in his pocket, steals an occasional sniff. Singer Richman paid him a reputed $25,000 to go on the trip to England, announced it would be a round-trip affair with only a few hours' pause at Croydon. To safeguard themselves in case...