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...Writer Shaw's courage (TIME, March 11) said: "The husband of Mrs. Shaw recently sold to an English review a cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment 'because the inventor was both an American and a Jew.' His courage was such that his insinuations−although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians−were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...
Died. Aurelius B. Hinds, 84, of Portland, Me., inventor and onetime manufacturer of toilet preparations (Hinds Honey & Almond Cream, etc.) now made by Lehn & Fink Products Co. of Manhattan; of pneumonia; aboard the S.S. Samaria, in the Mediterranean. Mr. Hinds was once clerk in a Portland drug store where, later, Cinemactor Lew Cody jerked sodas...
...Candler who originated Coca-Cola. Its inventor was one J. S. Pemberton, who, in 1886, made the first Coca-Cola in an old house on Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. During its first year Coca-Cola sold only 25 gallons and had for its outlets only Atlanta's three soda fountains. In 1889, however, Mr. Candler purchased an interest in the company (reputedly for $500) started to put Coca-Cola over in a large way. So successful was he that in 1919 the company was sold for $25,000,000, was organized as a Delaware corporation. The present management took...
...inventor of the crankless engine, A. G. M. Michell, of Melbourne, Australia, will discuss his discovery in a lecture tonight under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society. The address, one of the many sponsored by the society this year, will be held at 7.30 o'clock in 110 Pierce Hall. The public is cordially invited...
...Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski climbed through the escape hatch. He released a cork buoy attached to a life line, the other end of which was fastened to the submarine. Then grasping the life line he ascended. He was followed by Lieut. Charles B. Momsen, co-inventor of the mechanical "lung" (oxygen mask) with which both were equipped. The two men ascended 20 ft. at a time and then rested, holding the life line to keep themselves from bobbing quickly to the surface and meeting death from the sudden change of pressure. From 160 ft. they rose in 13 minutes, from...