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Professor McCollum, 53, a big, sleepy-eyed, slow-talking savant, went to Manhattan last week to confirm an important discovery about decayed teeth. Dr. R. Gordon Agnew, pathologist, and Mrs. Agnew, nutritionist, had observed that the filthy-mouthed Chinese and Tibetans at West China Union University. Cheng-tu. Szechwan Province, where they teach, had sound teeth under crusts of tartar. The Agnews examined native foods, reasoned that phosphorus and sunlight were the essential preventives of tooth decay. They took leaves of absence from West China Union University to prove their theory on rats at the University of Toronto, their alma...
...Died. Agnew Thomson Dice, 69, president of Reading Co. (railroad); of heart disease while returning from the theatre with his wife aboard a street car; in Philadelphia. Self-made, he obtained his first job (flagman of a section gang) from the late President Rea of Pennsylvania R. R., then a track supervisor. He joined the Reading in 1897, became president in 1918. White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone is his nephew...
...history of Popular Magazine is the story of Editor Charles Agnew MacLean's life. Editor MacLean was born in Ireland in 1880. Aged five, he was taken to the U.S. His father was a newspaperman who scraped enough money together for Son Charles to go to college. Charles demurred, made his parents move into a better house in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Fired from the New York Sun, fired from the Times, in 1903 Charles Agnew MacLean went to work for Street & Smith. Year after he was put in charge of Smith's, Ainslie's and the newly...
Authorities of the Fogg Museum of Art have announced the recent acquisition of a rare Botticelli, "Saviour with the Crown of Thorns". This painting was lost for centuries but was finally discovered by Agnew and Company, of New York City. It has been purchased, after long consideration, by means of the fund known as "The Friends of the Fogg Museum Fund" and can now be seen in Gallery...
...Agnew Thompson Dice, Philadelphia & Reading...