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Laggard, The DO-X, largest flying boat, last week resumed her laggard nine-month journey from Switzerland. Proceeding by easy stages from Belem, Brazil, where two motors had been replaced, she paused at San Juan to pick up a passenger. He was George Washington Grouse. Syracuse, N.Y. grocer, onetime passenger on the Graf Zeppelin. So eager was he to extend his accomplishments that he had waited two weeks for the arrival of the DO-X. After a stop at Cuba, the DO-X settled comfortably at Miami. Riding at anchor in Biscayne Bay, she was inspected by hordes of curious...
Preoccupied with research and dreading lay notice, young Dr. Moses Swick last week hid in the laboratory recesses of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He had developed a method of making the kidneys visible to x-ray photography. The method is so original, reliable and useful that urologists dignify it with the name Swick Method. The shadow material is called lopax in the U. S., Uroselectan in Germany. Its development was the result of chance, curiosity and an inference...
...such a methyl radical. Not worried, he offered to synthesize a more tolerable iodine preparation, soon furnished 5-iodo-2-pyridon-N-acetate of sodium, which he calls Uroselectan and U. S. urologists lopax. Injected in the veins it rapidly collects in the kidneys and shows by means of x-rays the shape of those organs and any stones or malformations there or in the ureters (leading from the kidneys to the bladder...
Married. Byrnece Macfadden, 19, of Englewood. X. J., daughter of Publisher Bernarr Macfadden (Physical Culture Magazine, True Story, New York Evening Graphic); and one Louis Ignatius Muckerman of St. Louis...
...flying boat was the huge Dornier DO-X which took off from Rio de Janeiro for Miami as proudly as if she had not been nine months on the way from Switzerland. Her sponsors set a leisurely schedule of nine days for the northward flight, but a crankcase broke near Para, Brazil, and there the laggard sat down again to await a new motor from Natal...