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Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life...
Fast Friends. In Pasadena, Calif., when Robert Dwyer and Robert Chapman rushed happily to greet each other after a long parting, Dwyer broke his leg, Chapman cracked his" skull...
Theodore L. Syvertson, of Pasadena, a 69-year-old retired building contractor, had hiccuped almost continuously, once every ten seconds, since November 1946. He lost ten pounds, spent nine months in hospitals, had consultations with 60 doctors which did him no good. Last week he tried bending over at the waist while drinking water from the far side of a glass. Halfway through the second glass, his hiccups stopped...
...TIME's source was a responsible Pasadena newsman. Astronomer Hubble himself does not remember whether he made the statement or not, "rather doubts" that he did because he is not a swearing man. "I may not have made the remark on this particular occasion," he adds, "but I assure you that I do not button my collar on the back of my neck...
...whole galaxy of cosmic ray experts gathered last week at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, to honor Nobel Prizeman Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 80, principal discoverer and namer of cosmic rays. Dr. Millikan, who was spry enough last summer to travel by station wagon from Texas to Canada observing cosmic rays, described the gathering as "a testimonial to my longevity and a kind of celebration of my passage through the portal leading into second childhood...