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Eben MacBurney Byers, 51, popular Pittsburgh sportsman and ironmaster, fell out of an upper berth five years ago returning from a Yale-Harvard football game. He hurt his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, prescribed a patented drink called ''Radithor." It was distilled water containing traces of radium and mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends, sent them cases of it, even gave some to one of his horses. Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill...
Eighteen months ago, after hundreds of drinks of the radium tonic, he began having pains in his jaw, severe headaches. Dr. Joseph Manning Steiner, Manhattan x-ray specialist who had seen several of the young women poisoned in U.S. Radium Corp.'s factory (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq.'), recognized in Byers' condition symptoms of radium poisoning...
...went out to investigate "Radithor," made by Bailey Radium Laboratories at East Orange, N.J. Robert Hiner Winn, attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, interviewed Byers at his Southampton home last September. Last week Attorney Winn described the scene: "A more gruesome experience in a more gorgeous setting would be hard to imagine. We went up to Southampton where Byers had a magnificent home. There we discovered him in a condition which beggars description...
...groups of meteorites recently studied appears to be below 3000 million years, which suggests a low age also for the stellar universe. Professor Paneth of Konigsberg has determined the age of a number of meteorites from their relative content of helium and radium; for 24 different iron meteorites he found values ranging from 100 to 2900 million years; for the Pultusk stone meteorites, the fall of which in 1868 has been well observed, he gives a preliminary value of 500 million years, which is probably a minimum value because of possible loss of helium in space and in our museums...
...noteworthy that neutrons have been recognized as coming from elements which are the lightest of their groups in the Periodic System. Beryllium is the lightest of the earth alkali group (beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, radium). Boron is lightest of the earth metals (boron, aluminum, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, actinium). Fluorine is lightest of the halogens (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and, newly recognized, alabamine...