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...LESTER ALLEN Jamaica Plain, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...District Court at Fort Worth, Tex. last fortnight, Florist Lester Harrison and his wife traced heavy steps. In a petition offered to Judge Frank P. Culver Jr. they set forth that their son Robert, 22, contributed nothing to the family living, would not get out of the house. They asked for and got a temporary injunction forbidding Son Robert entrance to their home. Said Mrs. Harrison: "I'm sorry it had to happen, but under the circumstances it was the least painful thing to do. It was simply a case of a child ruling his parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Enjoined Son | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

After five years' effort to synthesize a harmless, efficient local anesthetic, a Columbia University Research physiologist, Dr. Raymond Lester Osborne, in Science last week reported success. Ever since Dr. Carl Roller, an Austrian who now practises ophthalmology in Manhattan, discovered in 1884 that cocaine deadens sensation long enough for a minor operation, doctors worried because i) cocaine may start a bad narcotic habit, 2) cause a dangerous shock to the system. Best substitute has been procaine (usually called novocain), synthesized in 1905 by a German. But procaine causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epicaine | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...destruction. This struggle in Spain has developed into a class war, full of horrors, without pity or generosity of any kind." Cold facts on Spain's horrors are increasingly hard to get past its censors but in Paris last week arrived United Press's seasoned Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin American civil wars. "For every soldier killed in battle in Spain's civil war, three persons-men, women and children -have been murdered behind the lines." declared Mr. Ziffren, making clear that Spaniards on both sides share equal blame as wholesale murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Bumping Off Parties | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...must insist on an immediate retraction of this statement in a space equally prominent to that in which the libellous statement appeared. Very truly yours, Lester Cramer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

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