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...counties," had been found with a bullet through the heart and his .45 calibre revolver lying nearby (TIME, Nov. 23), 60-year-old Henry H. Denhardt, onetime Lieutenant Governor and Adjutant General of Kentucky, declared he had not fired a gun for six months. He suggested suicide. Paraffin tests for traces of nitrates, as from gunpowder, were made of both their hands. Last week Coroner D. L. Ricketts of La Grange announced that the tests indicated Mrs. Taylor had not lately fired a gun, and that General Denhardt had. Coroner Ricketts further announced that stains found on the road...
...Paraffin is poured on the subject's hands, peeled off when cool, tested with a hypersensitive nitric reagent. If nitrate (as from gunpowder) is present, purplish pinpoints will appear in the paraffin. The test is highly inconclusive...
...ready explanation. He and Mrs. Taylor had planned to marry shortly, he said, but her two young daughters objected. Because of that, he believed, she had killed herself. Early last week a coroner and a police sergeant went to General Denhardt's farm to make a paraffin test of his hands* which would determine whether he had lately fired...
...public and incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other organs were taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into...
Thus Dr. Fermi holding a ball of paraffin in his hand symbolizes a matter of immense importance to biology. Organic substances are rich in hydrogen. Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California, whose huge apparatus produces a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second, finds that on the white blood cells of rats neutrons exert ten times the destructive effect of X rays of equal intensity. As laid down last month in the American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, the biologic neutron problems now confronting science are these...