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Nine years ago in Vienna a stocky young tenor with wonderful teeth arched his stout chest into the high notes of a Korngold opera, The Miracle Of Heliane. Since then Jan Kiepura has risen to fame in European screen operettas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Tulsa, Okla., riding with a case of dynamite, Lee Smith saw that his car was about to crash into another, hugged the dynamite to his chest, prevented an explosion and was jailed for reckless driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...hands, Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police, heard a shot, gave chase to a man in a car. When police halted the runaway, another Nationalist popped up beside Colonel Riggs's car, shot him thrice, once through his prayer book, once through his chest, once through his head. He died within the hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Killing for Killing | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Woburn's Charles Choate Memorial Hospital day after the Lowell mishap, Dr. Thomas Francis Halpin, 31, with three nurses assisting, was in process of delivering a baby by means of forceps. He became aware of a severe headache, a sharp pain in his chest. He turned to one nurse, saw her drop unconscious to the floor. Just then a second nurse also dropped unconscious. The third nurse reeled to the double doors of the tightly closed obstetrical room, pushed them open, released a flood of carbon monoxide gas developed by a defective, gas-heated sterilizer. Refreshed, Dr. Halpin completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mishaps in Massachusetts | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Removal of the puddle of blood also served to let them see the wounded heart and to close its gap with five swift stitches. They then stitched the door of his chest shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Autotransfusion | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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