Word: 86th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors) to a secretary, having his picture taken...
...Golden Rule Department Store in St. Paul, Minn., made him a vice president. Said Mr. Roth: "I think most persons will be surprised at the large number of things we can get into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled it with 175 items, from the Victory Band Harmonica to cocktail shakers, had arranged them neatly in good department-store fashion. Two more of the new stores will open in Manhattan before the end of the year...
Next week the American Medical Association will hold its 86th annual convention at Atlantic City. At the same time and place the Canadian Medical Association will hold its 66th annual session. It will be the first time in history that organized U. S. Medicine (99,532 members) and organized Canadian Medicine (2,652 members) have held such a joint session. About 8,000 doctors from south of the Border, about 2,000 from north of the Border are expected to attend...
...working Capt. Anthony Eden, only just recovered from a heart attack, was appointed British agent for a suddenly called Franco-British-Italian conference at Geneva to try to avert something almost as embarrassing as a war-formal action by the League of Nations Council, meeting this week in its 86th session. Since 1923 Abyssinia has been a League member in good standing...
Since the death of Wisconsin's "Dad" Vail in there has been only one grand old man in rowing, Jim Ten Eyck of Syracuse, now in his 86th year and active in the sport. His son, Young Jim, is coaching the infant Rutgers crew on Raritan. Syracuse, under Ten Eyck, is always a threat...