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...Alice in Wonderland. He was a reform school hellion in Little Ol' Boy and a snippy Princetonian with white buckskin shoes in She Loves Me Not. For the past ten months he has been the voice of "Red" Davis, that hero of U. S. juveniles on the Beech-Nut radio hour. Grandson of a Protestant minister of Cleveland, Ohio, Meredith was sent to Manhattan to sing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine choir, later began working his way through Amherst by washing dishes. He quit that after a year, took up newspaper work at which...
Last week the able Chinese took his able wife and collaborator, Dr. Amy S. H. Ling Chen, to Brooklyn to announce the discovery of thevetin, a new heart stimulant which the Chens isolated from the poisonous bestill nut of Hawaii...
From the kernel of each nut. which is hard and bitter, the Chens derive five hypodermic doses of thevetin. Upon injection thevetin flows directly to the heart, strengthens the action of the heart muscle. The Chens' good friend, Dr. Albert Hyman of Manhattan, used the new drug on failing heart cases that had ceased to respond to digitalis. Results, beamed Dr. Hyman last week, "were extremely satisfactory...
Andy Bahr is a tough, squat, nut-brown little Laplander who is reputed to know more about reindeer than any man in the world. He was past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless...
Four years ago TIME reported that Reader Ryan had sued various railroads and steel corporations, including U. S. Steel, for $500,000,000, charging infringement of patents on self-locking nut & bolt devices invented by her late husband. The suits are still pending, and Mrs. Ryan, now 64, is about to publish a book called A Stolen Invention. She explains that the suits are for $250,000,000, not $500,000,000; that she, not her husband, was the inventor. Mrs. Ryan also says she has invented puncture-proof tires and an air cushion to ease the landing of persons...