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Theodore Lyman '97, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Emeritus, who late Sunday was operated on for a ruptured appendix while crossing on the Aquitania to England, was reported last night as resting comfortably. Professor Lyman, who is the director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, was planning to spend a short vacation in England, returning on June...
Last week, almost surreptitiously, Senator Heflin got permission to have this letter reprinted in the Appendix of the Congressional Record. That made it privileged, after which it could be cheaply reprinted by the government printing office and franked around the country without postage by Senator Heflin...
...Joyce's publishers gave her a tea in Manhattan, caviarish. terpsichorean. She flashed her teeth, her jewels; two days later went to Harbor Sanitarium to have out her appendix. Though cancellation of her passage to France helped to make the operation seem dramatically sudden, it was not; Authoress Joyce's room at the hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby...
Salpètriére students were quick to boast of their beloved professor's exploits. In particular they told how, when his own appendix needed outing, he lay down on the operating table of his lecture room, called for students taking his course in advanced surgery, selected one by lot and bade him cut away...
Modest to the point of bashfulness, Professor Gosset explained to last week's newsmen that his appendix exploit was merely a classroom demonstration of two maxims he tries to impress upon all his students...