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Died. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, 70, onetime president (1915-16) of potent American Chemical Society, editor (1917-21) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, adviser to Chemical Foundation, Inc.. discoverer of a method for converting the South's cheap slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful...
Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They...
Professor John Spinachseed of the Whiskey Straits Paleontological Society has just sent word of a discovery which will revolutionize the world of science more than somewhat. Burled beneath some heavy, coarse-grained Potsdam holystone beds, lie has uncovered a peculiar organ, perfectly preserved. It is a circular piece of fossilized...
Died. William Henry Griffith, 81, legendary discoverer of pink lemonade; of cancer; in Three Bridges, N. J. The legend: while he was tending a circus refreshment stand in the 1870s, an actress' pair of red tights dropped into his lemonade bucket, colored the drink pale pink.
Of most interest is the manuscript of the famous sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." In it glares the poet's notorious historical error for he had set down Cortes staring at the Pacific instead of Balboa, the rightful discoverer.