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...returned to East Germany after World War II. as did his Communist friends Gerhart and Hanns Eisler,* to revile the country that had granted him asylum. "Kantor," as he was called, put out a highbrow Marxist review called Ost und West, and peddled the rest of his poison in the Soviets' German-language newspaper Tägliche Rundschau. The Tägliche Rundschau saluted Kantor, the saturnine lecturer on German literature at East Berlin's Humboldt University, as "a pioneer, a pathfinder of the future German democracy...
Scratch One. In Philadelphia, after Detective Edward Pushkarwicz got poison ivy investigating a cash and stamp theft from a small post office, he arrested a suspect at home on finding a bottle of poison ivy lotion in the bedroom...
...conquistadors had no sooner begun cutting their way through the jungles of South America than they found themselves suffering casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison. But a century passed before Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595 carried to Europe the first samples of "urari"-a variant of curare. Years later botanists classified the shrubs from which curare is made,* and the brilliant French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1856 made an important discovery: from samples supplied by Brazil's Emperor Pedro II he showed that curare paralyzes its victims by blocking transmission of impulses from nerve...
Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...
Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...