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...years ago, as Svend Hansen, 40, clipped hedges in an Irvington, N. Y. garden, he was stung on the leg by a bee, fell unconscious. Twelve hours later, Hansen was revived by adrenalin and artificial respiration. Last week, as he worked in the garden, he was stung on the neck by a bee. In 15 minutes Svend Hansen was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bee Sting | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...share the honors in Latin 12, a history of Latin literature which provides the same latitude of choice as Greek 12. Rand and the course are well liked. Those who took Comp. Lit. 2 under the seductive title Antiquity in the East and West, declared that they had been stung in expecting anything relevant to classical studies here. Professor Ferguson who teaches both Greek and Roman History is recognized as an ornament to the Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...been virtually frozen. Until very recently this has been worrisome only to investment bankers forced to scratch for commissions. But the market crash has made the matter headline news by damming up some $150,000,000 in new security offerings which underwriters dare not release for fear of getting stung like Edward B. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I.B.A. | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Stung by his opponent's tactics, bald, amiable Mr. Cooke charged that Mayor Wilson and his allies had succeeded in ''muffling" a Grand Jury investigation of Philadelphia vice ordered by Socialite Judge Curtis Bok, who is also up for reelection. Ordered to explain to the Grand Jury what he meant by "muffling," Mr. Cooke last week took the witness stand, floundered: "Well, the word-muffled-as I understand it, is generally applied to drums. In other words, you have heard of a muffled drum The muffling . . . simply insulates the drum from the outside influences which in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaigns | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Homer Cummings had by no means been stung for the last time by Gadfly L&233;vitt. Last January, restless as ever, Mr. Cummings' special assistant slipped into a Senate Committee hearing to oppose unsuccessfully the permanent appointment of Governor Cramer, ask an investigation in the Virgin Islands. Said Mr. Cummings: "I can sum up my attitude in three words: I am disgusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gadfly's Inning | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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