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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Capt. Luther Sage ("Yellowstone") Kelly, 79, famed Indian scout, foe of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, veteran of Alaska and the Philippines; in Paradise, Calif. Capt. Kelly willed that he be buried in Boot Hill Cemetery (Billings, Mont.), where lie some 40 rascals and heroes who died "with their boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Deceived by press reports, Joseph C. Bloodgood, cancer expert (Johns Hopkins) spoke: "The ordinary amount of sunlight is practically never a cause of cancer. A cancer may develop from burns on the skin by the sunlight but at any stage before the cancer stage is reached, the progress of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Cancer. Connective tissue cells of connective tissue cancers in animals found by Alexis Carrel to be solely responsible for this type of malignant tumors. Killing tumor cells by X-rays or radium rays found by Charles Packard to depend upon the energy set free in the individual cell (which causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

The avowed purpose of Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's expedition to Antarctica is to increase man's knowledge of the South Pole and its surroundings. Thorough, the expedition has only begun a two-year plan of attack by boat, plane, sled, foot. Never before has an expedition been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

The Event was Commander Byrd's successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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