Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widener has long let it be known he would leave his collection to the public. It had always been assumed that the Philadelphia Museum of Art would get it. But this autumn the art world has buzzed with a rumor that the Widener art would go instead to the Mellon-endowed National Gallery of Art, now abuilding in Washington. Joe Widener has kept...
...secret is it that Andrew Mellon, before he made his gift to Washington three years ago, spent much time trying to persuade his friend Joe Widener to join him, since their two collections were perhaps the world's finest in private hands. Last time the two met, Mellon vowed, "I'll have you in with me yet." The addition of the Widener paintings and the fine Italian collection presented last summer by 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress (TIME, July 24) would make Washington's National Gallery one of the great galleries of the world...
...friend of Dr. Ralph Robertson Mellon in Pittsburgh lay dying from blood poisoning caused by streptococcus. In despair, Dr. Mellon gave him a dose of prontosil (sulfanilamide), a German drug never before tried on human beings in the U. S. To his joy, the dying man made a rapid recovery. That was three years...
University told a similar tale, one which may possibly prove as significant to medical history as Dr. Mellon's. As violent as the streptococcus is the pus-forming Staphylococcus germ, which causes boils, invades hearts, lungs, joints, kidneys, often fatally. To combat the Staphylococcus sulfanilamide and its offspring sulfapyridine were tried, but with few encouraging results...
Although sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine work wonders in the treatment of pneumonia, they sometimes bring on a train of after-effects both irritating and dangerous, including vomiting, violent headaches, acute anemia. Last week Dr. Mark McDonough Bracken of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute reported another "miracle drug" for treatment of pneumonia, cheaper than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham...