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Facial Neuralgia ranks close to angina pectoris as a racking pain. Cause of such neuralgia has never been ascertained. Usually some obscure infection is suspected. The pain may last for years, or it may return from time to time. Drugs only allay the pain, never cure it. Some surgeons stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physical Therapists | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

A danger of James Fenimore Cooper's works as cinema material is that, without his sombre prose (admired by Maxim Gorki and imitated by Joseph Conrad) they generally boil down into an antique kind of penny-dreadful. Scenarists Philip Dunne, John Balderston, Paul Perez, and Daniel Moore worked in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Last of the Mohicans | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

On the afternoon of May 31, 1889, a 16-year-old boy named Victor Heiser left his family home in Johnstown, Pa. to move two horses from the stable. He never returned. As he released the horses he heard a "dreadful roar . . . punctuated with a succession of tremendous crashes." He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flood's Survivor | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Suave, affable, approachable but highly individualistic, A. Atwater Kent thinks the New Deal is a dreadful blight. Some observers believed that his decision to close down last week originated in his dislike of doing business under the Roosevelt Administration. A more logical explanation was that Mr. Kent was simply tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kent Quits | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

MARIE ANTOINETTE'S HENCHMAN- Meade Minnigerode-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). "The dreadful sleazy, treacherous inside story'' of the French Revolution, told by a tireless researcher. Apparently unconcerned with economic or social forces. Biographer Minnigerode describes in overabundant detail the career of Baron de Batz. instigator of many of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent Books: Fiction | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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