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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that time Dr. Carroll has used the drug with remarkable success on four other staphylococcic patients, including a baby. "No toxic symptoms or signs ascribable to this drug were seen," reported Dr. Carroll, "except for a slight nausea." About the future of the drug, which is not yet on the market, he hazarded no comment. Last week sulfamethylthiazol was tried on two Staphylococcus victims in a Midwest hospital, and on one in Manhattan, with hopeful results. But still restrained is the cautious enthusiasm of physicians, who cannot commit themselves on the drug until it has been tried on many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Staphylococcus Conquered? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago one of Manhattan's most fabulous characters, known to every reporter in town yet mentioned rarely and discreetly in the press, blew the lid off his own story by standing on his head at the Metropolitan Opera House. By so doing, in the midst of a brilliant host of spectators who had gathered to celebrate opera's seasonal opening, Richard Allen Knight became news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Four years later Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Solitude, melancholy, the sense of death can become desperate problems; and plenty of travelers end their travels in alcohol or marriage. Yet "the number of suicides aboard trains is as small as that in church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Best to Love | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...clear pigment, and the clean spaciousness within which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related to the other in a very real sense, yet we are not conscious of any obvious attempt on the part of the artist to bring these elements together by means of labored and intricate composition. We find no straining at the leash of any one part to break into prominence and destroy the equilibrium which exists. The Sargent paintings...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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