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Died. John Wesley Van Dyke, 89, self-made oil tycoon, strong-handed board chairman of Atlantic Refining Co., president of nine oil companies; after long illness; in Philadelphia...
...dignified Thomas Mann shinnied self-consciously down the Ivory Tower and announced that a writer's business is to be political as well as literary. Elder Brother Heinrich Mann might have snickered in his lush Van Dyke beard, for Brother Thomas was only preaching what Brother Heinrich has spent a lifetime practising. For some 40 of his 68 years he has been writing a series of historical novels which constitutes a political and sociological record of the German people from Kaiserdom to "folkdom." If there is no Magic Mountain among his collected works, Brother Heinrich might well claim that...
...grand jury returned indictments against twelve living Democrats, one dead (Warren Van Dyke) for assorted skulduggeries including payroll padding, coercing employes for political contributions, conspiracy to control the bonding of highway contracts. Among the 13: Governor Earle's Secretary of the Commonwealth David Lawrence, Democratic State Chairman who is out on bail on a previous indictment in connection with a gravel scandal; his Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore; his Secretary of Highways, Roy E. Brownmiller...
Among the diseases conquered by sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat. Last week in The Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
...story reader reported that Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette was "thoroughly modern, thoroughly plausible and slightly censorable." The picture was listed on the late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director W. S. Van Dyke II and $2,500,000 are probably an unbeatable combination in any language. Even for Hollywood's most extravagant moments, the scale on which this picture was produced remains gargantuan. It is equipped with 5,500 extras and 98 grand-scale sets. It runs for two hours...