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A Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in 1558. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Sir Francis Drake taught to smoke a pipe in 1586, made smoking fashionable in Elizabethan England. Now the tobacco habit is so deeply fixed among mankind that...
Converted President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. thumped for a "wider appreciation and understanding of the social responsibilities of business." It was up to industry, said Mr. Brown, to help supply what the U. S. wanted- "work, more money, still more leisure, security against unemployment now and against...
The dark, dank jungles of Borneo will be wilder than ever during the next nine months, and usually placid primates will blink in the unaccustomed glare of publicity, for the first qualified expedition for studying them will leave within a month under the auspices of Harvard, Bart College, and Johns...
Last week when Mary Cleer went to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the great medical faculty there had never before treated or even seen a girl who sneezed so persistently. Johns Hopkins specialists began a new series of tests. A psychiatrist examined the girl and summoned her parents to analyze their mental...
In his 34 years, Ira Hirschmann has plu ged into many ventures, seen most of them succeed. Son of a Baltimore banker, Adolph B. Hirschmann, he studied economics at Johns Hopkins, left at 17, took up music with Peabody Institute instructors. At 20 he got a job as office boy...