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More recently doctors were interested in wall paper under which cockroaches and other room vermin made their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...
...some travelers the International Date Line is disconcerting, but not to Count Leo N. Tolstoi, philosopher, sculptor, playwright, political scientist, third son and namesake of the late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...
...Today there are three famed Byrd brothers-"Tom, Dick and Harry." Harry F. Byrd is Governor of Virginia. Capt. Thomas D. Byrd, U. S. Army retired, served with distinction in the World War, now manages a vast apple farm in Maryland. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd is the outstanding scientist-aviator...
William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. George H. Daley, sport editor New York World...
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Eugene Gifford Grace, president Bethlehem Steel Corp. D. Eng William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor...