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Died. Arthur Cheney Train, 70, novelist-creator of shrewd, lovable Yankee Lawyer Ephraim Tutt: after long illness; in Manhattan. Said Author Train ruefully: "As between Tutt and myself, Tutt will be remembered as the real person and I as the fictional character." Died. Moman Pruiett, 73, shaggy-browed Oklahoma criminal lawyer: of pneumonia; in Oklahoma City. Sent to jail for robbery at 18, he vowed "I'll open the doors of your damned prisons!" Later he became so expert at bringing tears to backwoods jurors' eyes (343 murder cases, 303 acquittals, no executions) that he was considered...
Died. Mrs. H. H. A. (Amy Marcy Cheney) Beach, 77, composer, pride of U.S. women's clubs, famed for such easily negotiable glee-club melodies as Ah, Love, but a Day, The Year's at the Spring, first woman composer to have a work per formed by the N. Y. Symphony (in 1892); of heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Vitamin U is a name for a substance present in grass, hog stomach, peanuts and other ill-assorted foods. Lieut. Colonel Garnett Cheney of the Army Medical Corps thinks that stomach ulcers may come from lack of it. He once gave gastric ulcers to chicks with the help of a Uless diet...
...Cheney thinks months on canned rations may have caused the ulcers, but is not quite sure just what it was in his treatment that cured them: it might have been the vitamin U or it might have been the quantity of nourishing food...
...University's coffers whatever money facultymen earn from lecturing, broadcasting, publishing outside the University. But Hutchins will let a Nobel Prizewinner keep his swag; he regards that (sometimes as much as $46,000) as "unearned income." > Hutchins announced the election to a University Vice-Presidency of Wilbur Cheney Munnecke, who for four years has held a similar title at the Marshall Field department store. Munnecke will coordinate University business affairs. Vice President Emery Thomas Filbey will continue as chief educational coordinator and Vice President William Burnett Benton (formerly of Manhattan's Benton & Bowles advertising, firm) will run such...