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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
...Perth Amboy, N. J., John Czerwiec, 67, took a last look into the coffin where his dead wife lay, collapsed and died...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mr. & Mrs. Carroll Timberman served on the same jury. Balloting for the verdict, Mr. Timberman voted for the defendant, his wife for the plaintiff. Final verdict: for the defendant. Boasted Mr. Timberman: "She soon came around to my way of thinking...
Newest member of the rapidly growing sulfanilamide family is a little number called N¹ dodecanoylsulfanilamide. It is a combination of the parent drug with part of a fat. Last week at the Baltimore meeting of the American Chemical Society Dr. Moses Leverock Crossley, director of Calco Chemical Co. at Bound Brook, N. J., announced that the new drug had successfully checked the growth of tuberculosis in guinea pigs...
Highlights on the program, which consisted chiefly of round-table conferences, were addresses by Ned Desrborn, Dean of General Education at N. Y. U., and by Gordon W. Allport '18, associate professor of psychology. Allport filled in for Kurt Lewin, lecturer on Dynamic Psychology...