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...letter to the editor of the Lancet last fortnight, a Glasgow doctor named Stanley Alstead offered an ingenious suggestion for deodorizing underground raid shelters. "I understand," wrote he, "that the stench in a London tube after it has been used for a night is beyond belief. . . . Old-fashioned charcoal [ might ] help in this connexion. Its power in abolishing smells is very considerable and has largely been lost sight of. . . . [ I heard of ]; a pharmacologist who actually put a dead cat into a charcoal box and kept it in his drawing room . . . without its having caused any smell. . . . Perhaps his guests...
...Lampoon announced the election of Burris Atkins Jenkins, Jr. '19, of Kansas City, Mo.; Barroll McNear '19 of San Francisco, Cal.; Edward Alstead Bacon '20, of Milwaukee, Wis.; and of Edgar Scott, Jr. '20, of Lansdowne, Pa., as regular editors. The following have been elected to the Board as business editors: George Edward Kunhardt, Jr., '20, of North Andover; Robert Courtney Langdon '20, of Providence, R. I.; James Frazer Lee '20, of Boston; Ernest Lovering, Jr., '20, of Brookline, and Henry DeCourcy Ward '20, of Cambridge...