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...flash and then that crash of the universe - just like every thing falling around me. And that feeling of his head in my arms and the warm blood." The jury concluded that Smith Reynolds had come to his death at the hands of a "person or persons unknown" (TIME, July 18). Mrs. Reynolds was taken back to her family home in Cincinnati by her father, Alfred Holman, a spare, grey-thatched attorney. The case died off the front page...
Officials of Travelers Insurance Co. were disturbed last week. News was out that an unknown policy holder had threatened to commit suicide unless the company granted him a loan equal to one-third the face value of his policy. Warning the company that his policy was between $25,000 an'' $200,000, the holder directed Travelers to reply through the public notice column of the New York Times with the message: "Status?Proposal and conditions accepted. Signed: Zelevart." Though "Status" represented himself as a man who had frequently borrowed and paid off much larger sums but who had fallen...
...likely that either Washington's or Massillon's victims had ptomaine poisoning. Ptomaines (from ptoma, a corpse) are basic chemical substances derived from the decay of animal or vegetable proteins. They appear in food substances only in the later stages of putrefaction. True ptomaine poisoning is almost unknown. The use of the term is a survival of the period when physicians believed that bacteria produced their injurious effects by means of basic alkaloid-like products. Now it is known that the bacteria themselves cause the trouble...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 135 East 42nd St., New York City...
Died. Zachary Smith Reynolds, 20, youngest son and an heir of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (tobacco), husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (Little Shows, Three's A Crowd); of "a gunshot wound inflicted by a person or persons unknown;" in Winston-Salem...