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Died. W. Denham Verschoyle, 75, anti-Newtonian inventor who spent most of his life trying to make an apple fall up; near London...
...Alexander Fleming, inventor of penicillin, I bequeath $1,000, just to show that the great painkillers of humanity have a few friends with hearts that beat for them...
Robert B. Woodward was awarded by Harvard University a five year instructorship commencing July 1 in recognition for his work as co-inventor of the process for synthesizing quinine. The 27 year old Ph.D. has been teaching chemical theory and organic synthesis here since...
...last. George Herriman, 63, creator of the sovereign comic strip, Krazy Kat, died after a long illness. Hundreds of thousands of readers, who knew the love-daft Kat and his curious companions as well as they knew their own dreams, knew little or nothing of their inventor. But as friends and colleagues talked of this modest little man, as he never on earth would have talked of himself, a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness emerged. "If ever there was a saint on earth," said warmhearted Harry Hershfield (Abie the Agent), "it was George Herriman...
When, some 20 years ago, the intellectuals discovered Herriman, Krazy Kat was compared with Don Quixote and with Pan, Ignatz with Sancho Panza and Lucifer, their creator with Anatole France, the German Expressionists, Charles Dickens. Herriman was praised as draftsman, colorist, creator of magical characters, fantastic inventor, and almost as much-but not perhaps enough-as a writer. In many respects his comic commentary resembles that of Joyce in Finnegans Wake, and Joyce might well have saluted the Herriman line: "Just imegin having your 'ectospasm' running around, William and Nilliam, among the unlimitless etha-golla...