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With two other Nashville physicians, Frank W. Claytor and William L. Smith, Dr. Turner devised an experiment, reported its results last week in The American Journal of Digestive Diseases. They gave orange juice to 15 subjects, took stomach samples after feeding. At other times they gave the same subjects equivalent amounts of 1) soft toast and tea; 2) rich milk. In all but two patients, the stomach acid averaged 75% higher after the orange juice than after the other diets. It looked as though ulcer patients should get their vitamin C from something else than orange juice. But the doctors...
...case flickered feebly until mid-1934, when Appalachian began actual construction of its unlicensed dam. In August 1939 a 1,140-foot barrier of grey-white concrete stretched across the New, with nine big spillways near the middle. Thirtieth largest hydroelectric plant in the U. S., Claytor Dam backed up 206,000 acres of water into a lake reaching 21 miles upriver...
Last week as the whine of Claytor Dam's four 2,600-h.p. generators rose over the quiet Virginia hills, the U. S. Supreme Court finally got around to the New River case. Two lower courts had agreed with the power company that it needed no license for its dam, since the New was unnavigable in fact and thus in law. By a 6-2 decision* stated by Justice Stanley Reed, the Court reversed these previous findings, held that the New was navigable, that Appalachian was subject to license and regulation...
Well able to do a problem in Euclid is Fellow Schieffelin Claytor, of Washington, D. C., whose studies on "Locally Planar Continua" have been presented before the American Mathematical Society. Parsing a Greek verb is child's play to Fellow Frank M. Snowden Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., who won honors in Greek and Latin at Harvard, will study further at Harvard and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece...
...next President will be William Graham Claytor, Jr. of Roanoke, Virginia. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 33. After the new president is elected, he appoints the other members with the advice of the old board...