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...eminent scientists in Sweden" referred to by the Reynolds Co. were Erik Lundberg and Stina Thyselius-Lundberg, medical experimentalists of the Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute in Stockholm. They wanted to know whether a diabetic might smoke, and, if so, how much. In the experiments on healthy and diabetic subjects, they used Camel cigarets. As a scientific "control" the Lundbergs also used German denicotinized cigar-cigarets called Bad Toltz. Nicotine either in smoke or as a straight drug, as the Lundbergs found and other investigators already knew, stimulated the adrenal glands. The stimulated adrenals exuded adrenaline which released sugar, which...
...Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before bid on a single piece of Americana, paid $51,000 for a letter by Signer Button Gwinnett. Four years ago Yale University awarded its Rowland Prize for distinctive achievement in architecture to Swede Ragnar Ostberg, designer of Stockholm's famed $2,500,000 Town Hall, hoped he would give a lecture or two in return. Last week Prizeman Ostberg returned to the U. S. for the first time in 41 years to lecture at Yale. Later in Washington he will receive from President Roosevelt the No. 1 gold medal...
...heads more about the price of eggs than the noble army of martyrs. On the modest but hereditary family estate of Marbacka, Selma Lagerlf spent most of her childhood. Her sister Anna was the beauty of the family; Selma was towheaded and not pretty, had been sent away to Stockholm's Orthopedic Institute to help her lameness. An undemonstrative child, she loved her father fiercely; when he was dangerously ill she made a vow to God that if his life were spared she would read the Bible from cover to cover. Her father recovered; Selma struggled...
Labor named as its representative on the automobile board Richard L. Byrd. In 1912 Mr. Byrd was known as the man who placed second in the discus throw in the Olympic games at Stockholm. Later he worked in the copper mines in Nevada, and after that for Fisher Body Co. Today he heads the A. F. of L. union in General Motors plants...
...production and his direction has made it a notable film. The picture is based upon the glamorous life of Sweden's famous Queen Christina who reigned three hundred years ago and its filming taxed the capacity of the M. G. M. construction department for the massive sets of the Stockholm Castle and various other materials. In addition to John Gilbert, who plays the part of the impetuous role of Antonio, the Spanish Ambassador with whom Christina fell in love, the cast includes Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young and C. Aubrey Smith