Word: radiumator
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...Stern in Brooklyn, opens with a sylvan swimming scene in Germany's Black Forest (300 miles from Berlin) where U. S. hikers surprise Berlin actresses off for the afternoon. One hiker (Herbert Marshall) marries Marlene Dietrich, takes her to the U. S. They have a child. Marshall contracts radium poisoning in his scientific research. To send him to a Dresden doctor, Marlene returns to cabaret work, lets a lisping politician (Gary Grant) keep her. The husband, cured and returned, threatens to take Marlene's child away. She is hounded down the scale until she gives up the child, flops...
Down from Canada 26 years ago marched a thick-wristed, heavyset golfer named George S. Lyon to make a bid for the U. S. amateur championship. He was stopped in the finals by Eben Byers, who died last spring of radium-water poisoning (TIME, April 11). That was the nearest Canada ever came to the title until last week when Charles Ross Somerville of London, Ont. emerged at the head of a field of 154 starters at Five Farms near Baltimore. After the first round of match play, Robert Tyre Jones Jr., an observer in a gallery...
...cancers. Dr. William Thomas Peyton of the University of Minnesota discourages mere surgery for the treatment of this cancer because "surgery alone, total excision of the maxilla, carries a high mortality (15% to 40%), and results in very few, if any, permanent cures. With proper combination of surgery and radium five-year cures may be obtained in 10% of all cancers of the antrum coming for treatment...
...purge quicksilver of Aristotle's four pristine elements. Mercury cleansed of earth, fire, air and water might then be changed to precious gold and silver. The rush for mercury in Arkansas last week was paralleled by a rush into Canada's Great Bear Lake region for radium, the modern transmuter's lodestone...
...week was Mayor James John Walker of New York. One of his good friends, a Mrs. Clarabelle Walsh who lives in the Hotel Plaza, advised him to drink the stuff because "he was suffering so." Three times a day he squeezes the rubber bulb of a device called a "Radiumator," which supplies water with short-lived radium emanation. Experts say that aside from the psychological effect, the only good derived is from the quantities of water imbibed, none from the emanations. But Mayor Walker, with the persistence of a convinced self-medicator, declared last week: "I won't stop using...