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Died. John J. McGrane, 80, railroader, jeweler, real estate developer, Papal Knight of St. Gregory the Great; in Manhattan. Adviser to Cardinals Merry del Val, Bisleti, Gasparri (see p. 23), he was decorated by Popes Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict...
...Justice and Ecclesiastics and of course a "literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King...
...Edmonton, Alta., Ruth Olsen, 27, died after an operation. Reason: A towel 16 in. x 26 in. was left inside her body...
...expresses his theory mathematically on a graph: the product of X (frequency) times Y (conspicuousness) is some constant N. "We might fill in X and Y with their actual values," he says, "and solve the equation for N: we should undoubtedly find N a number varying infinitesimally from person to person, slightly from dialect to dialect, distinctly from culture to culture, and vastly between the languages of primitive and civilized men. In fact, I believe that an understanding of N will ultimately lead to an understanding of that stuff called Life...