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Died. León Charles Albert Calmette, 70, sub-director of Paris' Pasteur Institute, developer of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guérin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations...
...Friends told him the way to do it was to write a book. He wrote a book of short stories in two weeks, paid to have it printed, waved it in producers' faces when asking for a job. He and Director Malcolm St. Clair managed famed Police Dog Rin Tin Tin. They got work with Warner Brothers by acting out their stories, taking turns impersonating Rin Tin Tin. Small, sharp-faced Zanuck quickly progressed to a successful series of boxing stories; in three years he was studio dictator. When Warner Brothers merged with First National, Darryl Zanuck was placed...
...Rin-Tin-Tin. Animal thriller. Gifts: 32-page dog "autobiography" and a sample can of Bird-E-Ration...
...tread in false fear or forbidden paths see a Cerberus in every canine form. But men who own dogs, not for breeding and selling, nor for hunting or house-watching, but for the idle pleasure which the ownership affords, know the pet, not as from Hell, nor yet as Rin-Tin-Tin, but in the full measure of what it is worth. If you would beat and kick your wife, and yet have her love you and fawn upon you, said William Wycherley, get a bitch...
...Graham Wallas, 74, sociologist, political scientist, author (Human Nature in Politics, The Great Society, The Art of Thought); in Cornwall, England. Distinguished in appearance, Dr. Wallas was a witness at George Bernard Shaw's wedding in 1898, was mistaken for the bridegroom, nearly married to Mrs. Shaw. Died. Rin Tin Tin, 14, famed German shepherd dog actor; of old age; in Hollywood. He was found during the War in Alsace-Lorraine by Lieutenant Lee Duncan. After four years education in the U. S. he appeared in his first motion picture, Where the North Begins. Trainer Duncan always emphasizes...