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Died. Philip Dansken ("P.D.") Ross, 91, dean of Canadian newspapermen, millionaire publisher (for 62 years) of Canada's most widely quoted paper, the Tory Ottawa Journal (circ. 56,293); of hypostatic pneumonia; in Ottawa...
Died. Sir Bernard Pares, 82, historian and authority on Russia; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. British-born, non-Communist Sir Bernard (George V knighted him in 1919 for helping the short-lived pro-Allied Kerensky government) visited Russia more than 20 times, was firmly convinced that Stalin (unlike Lenin and Trotsky) was a patriot interested only in his own country's security (rather than ia world revolution and Communist domination...
...widely used Wassermann test for syphilis has its faults. If the tested patient has recently been vaccinated, the Wassermann may be "positive" - the standard indication of syphilis. It may also be positive if he has any one of a long list of diseases, e.g., chicken pox, measles, malaria, pneumonia, meningitis...
Died. Chase Salmon Osborn, 89, author, prospector, philanthropist and onetime progressive Republican Governor of Michigan (1911-12); of pneumonia; in Poulan, Ga. Osborn made a fortune from iron ore discoveries in Canada, Lapland, Africa and Latin America (he gave most of the money to charity), sponsored one of the first workmen's compensation bills in the nation, Michigan's first women's suffrage measure. Two days before his death, he married Stellanova Osborn, 55, his longtime secretary and adopted daughter (after a court dissolved the adoption...
...July 12), has proved effective against a steadily mounting list of diseases. Like aureomycin, it works against the group of diseases caused by the tiny organisms called rickettsiae, including typhus fever, scrub typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In a few cases it has worked against primary atypical ("virus") pneumonia...