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...word that Japanese Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi would attend. Formality demanded singing of the Japanese National Anthem. Distracted officers consulted frantic musicians. Relief came with news that Ambassador Debuchi could not attend after all. Relief was short. On parade, with Governor Ritchie present, 21 paraders were taken ill. Suspected: the liver at lunch...
Another throne for the inveterate palace builder arrived last week from King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy. This throne, of solid walnut, is tastefully gilded, embellished with columns of liver-colored porphyry and allegorical figures of Justice & Power holding a large gilt crown. King Zog will sit upon the new throne in the new Summer Palace above Durazzo...
...toad, one of the most ancient forms of present animals, one that lives both in water and on land, apparently secretes a fluid whose components are both animal and vegetable. One ingredient is ergosterol, which is found in cod liver oil. Another is adrenalin exactly like that taken from the suprarenal glands of animals. Two other ingredients act like digitalis, which the purple foxglove produces. There is a reservation in the scientists' report. They do not know how the Chinese dry and prepare their toad venom. Strange things may be added, befogging a true analysis...
Report of further experiments to prove his bipolar theory of life came from Cleveland's Dr. George Washington Crile. He considers that every living cell is a tiny electrical cell, that the body is a battery with the brain the positive pole and the liver the negative pole (TIME, Aug. 30. 1926). Last week he reported that he had found that every living cell has a definite electrical potential, or tension; that as that potential decreases the cell becomes enfeebled until it dies. When an electric current with a potential opposite to that of a cell is passed through...
Died. Fleet Admiral Viscount Ryokei Inouye, 84, veteran Japanese naval officer, onetime guest student at the U.S. Naval Academy (class of 1881); of liver disease; in Tokyo...