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Major Henry Lee Higginson married the daughter of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Their son, Alexander ("Aleck") Henry Higginson is a famed foxhunter, divides his time between his 400-acre farm in South Lin- coln, Mass, and England where he is a Master of the Cattistock Hunt. His son, Henry Lee Higginson, is also a gentleman of leisure...
...occurred to Professor Voegtlin and Dr. Harold W. Chalkley, an associate, that glutathione might be a contributing cause of cancer. Forthwith they immersed amoebae (single- celled animalcules) in a glutathione solu-tion.* The amoebae reproduced themselves by subdivision (as all cells do) with extraordinary ease, confirming the Voegt-lin-Chalkley suspicion that perhaps the rampant growth of cancer cells is attributable to glutathione, and suggesting that glutathione in the body might be Cancer's nemesis...
Died. Mrs. Lucy ("Aunt Lucy") Stewart Knox, 93, grandmother of Cinemactress Anita Stewart; in Brooklyn, N. Y. A friend of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, she hid him lin her Brooklyn house in 1875 after he had been found guilty of colossal thieveries from the New York municipal government and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. By her aid he eluded vigilant watchers, escaped to Cuba on his yacht...
...Chicago. In reporting the story originally, TIME said: "Offsetting the 'frame-up' theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had 'positively identified' Brothers as the 'big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye' who had shot Lin-gle." Last week, one month after his arrest, Leo V. Brothers had his first hearing in open court, mumbled "On the advice of my attorneys I stand mute." Under the law the judge thereupon directed that a plea of "Not Guilty" be entered on behalf of Brothers...
...result of the "little generals' " conference young Chang, who inherited Manchuria and $10,000,000 from his famed, barbaric father Old Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928) set himself up last week in Peiping (once Peking), prepared to reside there permanently as Governor of the North. If one of his subordinates in Manchuria does not seize that rich land and ruin Marshal Chang, he will be most lucky...