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This sort of front, plus a prodigious capacity for turning out ideas and listenable plays, make Arch Oboler NBC's No. 1 Wonder Boy. His start toward such a ranking goes back to a bundle of estimable playlets he turned out in 1934-35 for the Grand Hotel program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Genius's Hour | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

By doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills. It is a nerve affliction which usually strikes one side of the jaw, occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tic Tactics | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Tucked off in an inconspicuous corner of many newspapers is a little section called "Ten Years Ago Today," summarizing 24 hours of news of a decade ago and making them sound more remote than the wars of the Medes and the Persians. Because London newspapers are older than most, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Dreadful Havock | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Such actual plant traps as these have probably inspired the tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Bites Animal | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

But the Radcliffe members, most of whom are also members of the Radcliffe student Union, are apparently ready to raise the issue of coeducation. "Harvard and Radcliffe relations are very illogical," Miss Steinhardt declared. "I see no reason why graduate students are subject to so many petty restrictions. We have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Dining Coop Must Oust Radcliffe Members to Get Loan | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

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