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Died. John Manning van Heusen, 63, inventor of the first semisoft collar; of pneumonia; in Scarsdale, N. Y. He patented his collar in 1913. marketed it in 1921 with Phillips Jones Co. which has sole manufacturing rights. In 1922 Inventor Van Heusen and Phillips Jones Co. successfully sued the bulk of the U. S. collar industry for infringement of patents. In the following year, however, Inventor Van Heusen was sued for $6,000,000 by John B. Bolton. For patents he had assigned to Van Heusen, Inventor Bolton later received $1,000,000. Other Van Heusen inventions: nonslip garters, nonslip...
...picked up in a dory, voyage together from Central America to Manhattan. At the end of the voyage they are engaged. The foundling, an inarticulate urchin, gives a more sure-fire performance than either Cooper or Colbert. By crawling out on deck and sitting in the rain, he catches pneumonia. This indisposition resolves the difficulties which result from Cooper's discovery that his fiancee has been an inmate of a pleasure house in Cristobal. Shot: Cooper maintaining the tradition that no real man knows how to manipulate an infant, by splashing soapy water on the foundling's fundament...
Died. Charles Wilson Nibley, 82, Second Counsellor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) ; of pneumonia; in Salt Lake City. For 18 years Presiding Bishop of his church, Bishop Nibley was chosen Second Counsellor in 1925, thus becoming a member of the highest Mormon body. A lumber and sugar tycoon, he was rated Mormonism's wealthiest man. Bishop Nibley had three wives, espoused...
...January 3, "Modern Conceptions of the Brain at Work" by Dr. Philip Bard; January 10, "Cancer" by Dr. R. B. Greenough '92; January 17, "Dietary Habits in Relation to Indigestion" by Dr. C. M. Jones; "The Role of Water in the Body" by Dr. M. I. Gregerson; January 31, "Pneumonia" by Dr. H. L. Blumgart '17; February 7, "The 'Glands' of internal Secretion" by Dr. R. G. Haskins; February 14, "Alcohol" by Dr. T. M. Carpenter; February 21, "What the X-ray Can and Cannot Do" by Dr. G. W. Holmes; February 28, "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults...
...first Mrs. Stalin, Ekaterina, died of pneumonia before the 1917 Revolution. In 1919 Josef Stalin, not yet Dictator but already high in the Soviet Government, made a dazzling visit to the still humble shop and home of his old friend Sergei Alliluiev...