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...concluded its five years' schedule of investigation. So far the Research has produced chiefly negations: the common cold is not caused by that, that or the other. The one positive result is the certainty that colds are caused by a filtrable virus transmitted from person to person through nose & throat. Ground, cleared of weedy hypotheses and surmises, may give results this year...
...Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, long ago assigned the infantile paralysis problem to himself. He announced that what he suspected is almost certainly true?the virus of the disease gets into the system through the mucous membranes of the nose and upper throat...
Died. Lya de Putti, 32, high-born Hungarian stage and film actress (Variety, The Heart Thief, Made In France); of pneumonia after an operation to remove a chicken bone from her throat; in Manhattan...
...Philadelphia, William Dion was walking along a street smoking. Ever since a throat operation 22 years ago he has had to exhale through a tube in his throat. A passerby saw smoke coming out of his collar, grabbed the spot to put out the fire. The tube was displaced, William Dion fell choking. A fast car got him to a hospital in time to save him from choking to death...
...will receive all non-Labor and anti-Labor votes. Two years ago, when Labor, barely "won the election (TIME, June 10, 1929), one-third of all Labor candidates were victorious for no other reason than that each had two or more opponents who cut each other's throats. This year such throat- cutting has been reduced to a scientific minimum by broad agreement among all parties supporting the National Government not to run rival candidates (though they did this in a few cases...