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...provoke envy in the thousands who came in merely their best clothes (see p. 63). It was all very much like the race meet at Auteuil, in the suburbs of Paris, in the spring of 1940, when Parisian couturiers worried about the proper cut and color for gas-mask containers. Shut Out whipped Alsab in the famed Belmont Stakes, and Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the entire Eastern Sea Frontier, came graciously to the microphone to make a neat little speech, in which he promised that the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific would win as Shut Out had just...
...world's greatest experts on poisons were given honorary degrees in medicine last week at Connecticut State Medical Society's sesquicentennial celebration. The toxicologists: Dr. Alice Hamilton, 73, industrial expert and first woman professor at Harvard; Physiologist Yandell Henderson, 69, of Yale, inventor of the modern gas mask...
...Tousled, belligerent Yandell Henderson has concentrated on poison gases, of war and peace. During World War I, Professor Henderson (with his assistant, Howard Haggard) invented a gas mask, but his greatest scientific work is his research on respiration. Physiologists long believed that asphyxiation was caused by lack of oxygen plus an accumulation of "poisonous" carbon dioxide in the body. The old method of resuscitation was to pump pure oxygen into lungs. But this method was seldom successful. Professor Henderson proved that carbon dioxide in small amounts is really an essential breathing stimulant, introduced an O 2 -CO 2 mixture which...
This belief seems to have been confirmed by a more recent article, a lying smear of organized labor. These are the most recent and the most striking examples of the Satevepost's irresponsible, ultra-reactionary editorial policy. They clinch our belief that the Post, beneath its mask of patriotism, is doing its bit for Hitler...
Saboteur (Frank Lloyd; Universal) is one hour and 45 minutes of almost simon-pure melodrama from the hand of the master: bejowled, Buddha-ball Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, etc.), whose guileless countenance and cherubic demeanor mask a talent for scaring hell out of cinema audiences...