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Died. Tom Creighton, 75, co-discoverer of the fabulously rich Canadian Flin Flon mine; after long illness; in Flin Flon, Man. Creighton (and five others) stumbled on the Manitoba lode in 1915, named it after a fictional explorer in a British pulp-magazine thriller. The partners sold out (Creighton got...
Last week Heil had another feather in his discoverer's cap. Florence, which in recent months has been sending its art treasures to the U.S. for display (TIME, Feb. 7), wanted to borrow the wandering Florentine boy for an exhibition in the Museum of the Bargello this spring.
* Named for their discoverer, U.S. Pathologist Howard Taylor Ricketts, who died in 1910.
Died. Dr. John Elmer Weeks, 95, internationally known ophthalmologist and discoverer (with German Bacteriologist Robert Koch) of the bacillus which causes acute contagious conjunctivitis (pinkeye); in La Jolla, Calif.
By last week The Varsity Story had sold some 5,000 copies in Canada (royalties to Toronto). The university was not saying just how many of Callaghan's and other hints had been picked up by wealthy alumni. But if & when Toronto got the money, it would go (together...