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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Chicago, Dr. William Mabley Muncy of Providence, R. I. suggested to his colleagues of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology a way of taking the blinding curse off tryparsamide. He had done it with a good old standby: vitamin...
...that Mr. Longoria was talking big through his hat. But last week he laid himself wide open by announcing: "The ray lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...
University of California's faculty ranks as one of the Big Four among U. S. universities (with Harvard, Chicago, Columbia). Few years ago the American Council on Education rated California "distinguished" in 21 of 35 departments (Harvard: 23). Among California's distinguished professors: Atom-Smasher Ernest Orlando Lawrence, French Scholar Haakon Chevalier, Chemist Gilbert Lewis, Spanish Scholar Rudolph Schevill, Biologist Herbert McLean Evans, Paleobotanist Ralph W. Chaney, Legal Scholar Max Radin...
...Chicago, nine minutes before the close of WBBM's Ellery Queen program, a water hose burst in the transmitter cooling system, and WBBM had to go off the air. Almost immediately WBBM's switchboard was swamped with calls, all asking, "Who was the murderer?" The phone girl had to call CBS in Manhattan, whence the program had been coming, to find out. The next hour she spent replying: "The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . . The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . ." Next day WBBM called back another thousand who had left their numbers, reporting Mr. Wiggins' crime with trimmings...
Died. Eliza Stone, 97, one of the first woman telegraphers in the U. S., who stuck to her post during the Great Chicago Fire until driven out of her office by flames; of old age; in the Old Ladies Home at Oswego, N. Y., on the 68th anniversary of the fire...