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On a wall of the Explorers Club in upper Manhattan is a painting, done in the 'Arctic, of the late Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) examining a meteorite. The canvas came from a pair of the North Pole discoverer's brown pants. The artist was Albert Operti, a...
Divorced. Professor Frederick Grant Banting, 39, Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of insulin (see p. 25); from Marion Robertson Banting.
Ill lay: onetime Fisticuffer James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett (who won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder...
Died. Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, 74, president of the American Philosophical Society (oldest U. S. scientific association, founded in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin), discoverer of the painful fatty disease adiposis dolorosa, an eminent neurologist; of heart disease; in Philadelphia, as he was sitting in Franklin's "ladder-chair"* and about...
Discoverer of the plot was one Wilson, correspondent in Manhattan of Pravda. Pravda means "Truth." Pravda is the official Soviet daily of the Communist Party. What Wilson cabled to Moscow, Pravda printed as news.