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...great individualists," is a igth-Century fighting liberal, so independent that he would not even join the Independent Labor Party. Highlights of his long Parliamentary career include opposition to entrance into the World War and the rallying of a Parliamentary faction to support King Edward VIII in the Wallis Warfield Simpson crisis (". . . an insult to the United States"). Colonel Wedgwood's big heart, like that of his ancestor who backed the American Rebels of 1776, burns for all oppressed peoples, including Spaniards, Czechs and Jews, but he abhors spinelessness. The fighting Colonel last week lit into the Government...
...Warfield Monroe Firor of Johns Hopkins has long worried about this paradox. About 18 months ago he got the hunch that the tetanus toxin which causes the first stage of the disease must be different from the poison which causes the second fatal stage. To test his hunch he injected both small and large amounts of tetanus toxin directly into the spinal cords of more than 60 dogs. The injections were always followed by muscular paroxysms and death, even though 100 times the neutralizing dose of antitoxin was in the bloodstream and even though some doses of the poison were...
Died. George W. Lederer, 76, "father of the modern musical show," producer of Florodora, manager of Lillian Russell, Marie Dressier, Marie Cahill, David Warfield; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Queens. In the 1890s, when the word "variety" was almost in the same disrepute as "burlesque" later, Lederer introduced the re-spectabilizing word "vaudeville...
...Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson was Woman of 1936, but the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with the assistance of Herr Hitler and Mr. Bedaux, eliminated themselves as completely as possible from an important place in the history of 1937. Their names would scarcely have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME...
...Simpson, 40, onetime husband of the Duchess of Windsor; to Mary Kirk Raff ray, 41, childhood friend of his onetime wife; by special permission after a judge waived Connecticut's five-day notice and blood test laws; in Fairfield. Mrs. Raffray, who introduced Ship-Broker Simpson and Wallis Warfield (then Mrs. Earl W. Spencer) in 1925, was divorced three weeks ago from Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, Manhattan insurance broker...