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...Marie Curie, 62, co-discoverer of radium made known that since her U. S. visit (TIME, Oct. 28) she had ridden horseback in Paris thrice weekly with her daughter, on her doctor's recommendation...
...salt solutions. The hearts beat in vitro half an hour or so, then ceased. Professor Zwaardemaker added small amounts of potassium salt to his solution. The hearts began to beat again. They continued so for 24 hours. Potassium is weakly radioactive. Other radioactive elements gave the same stimulating results-radium, thorium, uranium, polonium...
Birthday. Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium; in Manhattan. Age: 62. She celebrated by: 1) Receiving callers at the home of her longtime friend Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola...
Five New Jersey women who one year ago believed that today they would be dead, were still alive last week but uncomfortable at the imminence of death. They are suffering from radium poisoning contracted while painting luminous watch dials for the U. S. Radium Corp. (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq). The company, after law suits, gave each woman $10,000 and expenses...
...reach trial. Mrs. Ethelwynne Metz of Newark claimed $200,000 personal damages. Her husband wanted $50,000 for loss of her services. Moreover, Mrs. Metz's doctor, Ames Lawrence Filiponne of Newark, last week stated that Edward Metz, 6, born after Mrs. Metz had worked for U. S. Radium Corp., was also suffering from the same poison, acquired in utero. The child's affliction, if proved, promised to raise fine medico-legal points. Is he the victim of industrial hazard? Can a concern be held liable for the ills of its employees' descendants...