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Last December Winthrop Chemical Co., a reputable Manhattan firm, shipped out 410,000 sulfathiazole tablets throughout the U. S. Several days later a doctor complained that the pills made a patient dangerously drowsy. Company chemists discovered to their horror that they had been accidentally mixed with a powerful sleeping powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dangerous Drug | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

In between, Director Garnett fashioned the second episode in Universal's resuscitation of drowsy Marlene Dietrich. Traipsing through the islands of the East Indies with a trollop's parasol and two larcenous bodyguards (Broderick Crawford and Mischa Auer), she encounters a well-groomed wing of the U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

One drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Catherine Evans1 Bedspreads | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

"One. two, three, four . . . thirteen, fourteen, Go!" Up went the barrier and off went nine of America's fastest three-year-old trotters-with a rataplan dear to U. S. horse lovers. It was the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 harness races held in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Great Scott | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Pastor Hall (United Artists) is redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Offensive | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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