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...Manhattan last week was held the annual Mother's Day luncheon of the Maternity Center Association. Cried Yale's Physiologist Thomas Wilcox Haggard: "In this country 16,000 women give their lives every year in childbirth, and 10,000 of those deaths are needless. Meanwhile, we celebrate Mother's Day. How utterly typical of the worst of adolescent public opinion is that flower of commercialized sentiment. A rather shameful procedure that, a hypocritical gesture typical of a people who believe they can replace a deep obligation by a shallow sentimental flourish...
Pacing up & down his hot little laboratory, black hair mussed, clothes wrinkled, eyes haggard, Dr. Cornish's hopes waxed & waned with the dog's vitality. "I am afraid," he said dejectedly toward the end of the twelfth day, "that the dog will be an idiot the rest of his days...
Although cheered the nation began to take anxious note of the haggard lines that eleven terrific months in office have left on the President's face. The smile is as bright as ever but the flesh has aged perceptibly. Colds have caused the President most of his trouble. Last April he was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined...
...longer for himself. Clemence Dane has clothed this fragile, moving phantasy in verse sometimes remindful of the brassy couplets of Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, sometimes of Noel Coward's flip lyrics, never of the stately pentameters of her own Will Shakespeare. The Boy (Stephen Haggard) is lying dead on his pallet when Death comes to take him. The Boy screams defiance, pleads for a chance to come of age among the living. Before Death agrees, centuries pass. The Boy is returned to the London of 1934 and the charms of a worldly woman (Judith Anderson...
TIME reported methylene blue treatment for cyanide poisoning (TIME, Dec. 19, 1932). TIME's readers reported cases of methylene blue treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning (TIME, Jan. 16; Dec. 25, 1933). In the A. M. A. Journal referred to above, Drs. Howard W. Haggard & Leon A. Greenberg of Yale University view with alarm such treatment which, they state, is not antidotal for carbon monoxide and may be fatal...