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Died in Paris, Dr. Bergonie, radium expert of Bordeaux, killed by the effects of the insidious element he had used so adeptly to cure others. At the Bordeaux Clinique, of which he was R??ntgenologist,? he had long carried on experiments with radium, in which he had consummate faith as a curative, studying its effect on gangrenous growths, on cancer. Continued exposure to radium rays caused a disintegration of the cells of his right arm, which had to be amputated. A cancerous infection had invaded his respiratory system. Dying, he called a council of physicians, outlined to them...
...specialist in R??ntgen Rays (or X-rays as they are generally called) named after the discoverer, William K. Rontgen, a German physicist...
...repertoire opened with L'Aiglon, written by Edmond Rostand for Bernhardt. Following the example of that great actress, Mme. Simone plays the leading male r??le, that of Napoleon's son. She will follow with Naked, a play by Pirandello, new to America. For the third week, the play will be Mme. Sans-Gêne Classics will complete the repertoire...
Other appointments made: M. de Fleuriau, Minister to Peking, to be Ambassador to Great Britain in place of Comte de Saint Aulaire; Senator R??né Besnard to be Ambassador to Italy, displacing M. Barriére, who for 27 years has represented France at Rome; M. Peretti della Rocca, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Ambassador to Spain in room of M. de Fontenay; Comte Charles de Chambrun, Director of Press Service at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Minister at Athens; Deputy Jean Hennessy, ardent supporter of the League of Nations...
...they say, Lenin's most intimate friend in the inner Communist circle. "Minister of Nationalities," he was chiefly responsible for binding the outlying provinces to the Soviet r??gime. He himself came from Georgia?was once a clerk there...