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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise move in the picture was casting Dorothy Lamour as a victim of hypnosis to cover her obvious deficiencies as an actress. And this may not have been intentional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

Toothache. In Durango, Colo., Mrs. W. J. Wellman, an automobile accident victim, went home from the hospital, felt a pain in her hand a few days later, consulted the doctor, who fixed things by extracting one of her missing teeth from her thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...more successful. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the President's personal physician (see Investigations), reported that two ultraviolet floor lamps, installed in the White House's Oval Room, had cut germs by 62%. General Graham planned to put germicidal lamps in other rooms; his charge is an easy victim of the common cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 6575 on Your Dial | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Each hair, say Emmelin & Feldberg, has a flexible bladder at its base. The hair itself is hollow and stiffened with silica. At the tip is a tiny bulb like a cork stuck on the end of a hypodermic needle. When the hair touches a victim, the bulb breaks off, exposing a point so exquisitely sharp that it slips right through the skin. Pressure on the hair shaft squeezes the bladder and injects poison into the victim's tissues. The result: a hot, burning sensation followed by a longer-lasting itching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Unsociable Nettle | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...common objection was voiced against neckties. "Something happens to women when they go looking for them; they can see nothing but blood-and-thunder patterns," growled one victim 'who was outfitted like a huckster last December 25. Minority factions declared themselves against magazine subscription, searves, and most jewelry...

Author: By Joan Mopartlin, | Title: Importance of Other Sex Clouds Yuletide Spirit | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

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