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Queen Mary, since it became publicly) known that she smokes (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11), has received a constant stream of protests, not from Her Majesty's own subjects but from women's clubs in the U. S. babbitt belt. The Queen does not smoke "gaspers" (popular brands) but medium priced, tipped, essentially feminine cigarets...
Officials pointed out that to win the distinction of common military burial among Frenchmen who fell in the War one must, according to law, have died between Aug. 2, 1914 and Oct. 24. 1919. whereas martial Marshal Petain is still alive...
Britain's new Air Minister, Baron Amulree of Strathbraan, is also chairman of her Royal Commission on Licensing Laws (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week the Commission, now (like President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission-see p. 20) nearing the close of its extensive labors, examined two star witnesses: Sir Arthur Keysall Yapp, Deputy President of the British Y. M. C. A., declared that, "since the War the trend in drinking by British youth has been toward moderation . . . toward beer." Sir Arthur Balfour* steel tycoon of Sheffield, England, testified: "I have visited the United States about 40 times...
...office, was investigating recent attempts to boost the stock's price, sought action against Mr. O'Mara, George C. Van Tuyl Jr., onetime New York State Superintendent of Banks, now a director of The Bank of United States, and David Lamar, so-called "Wolf of Wall Street" (TIME, Aug. 18). Brockway Motor Truck Corp. was one of the stocks identified with insolvent Prince & Whitely (TIME...
Last week Professor Felix d'Herelle?scarcely a name to the public but at Yale a tallish, dark, impatient, much respected protobiologist?gave the New York Academy of Medicine his explanation of such phenomena. Completely invisible parasites which he calls bacteriophage (TIME, May 28, 1923; Aug. 30, 1926) infest the microscopically visible germs and in some unknown way kill them. The microbes seem to dissolve into clear liquid. They are dead, for their residue cannot cause disease. But the residue is a potent poison of germs...