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...were being attacked. Early morning extras confirmed the fact. Said the Los Angeles Times: "Roaring out of a brilliant moonlit western sky, foreign aircraft flying both in large formation and singly, flew over Southern California. ... At 5 a.m. the police reported that an airplane had been shot down near 185th...
...plunged safely from the 110-ft. Merchant's Bridge in St. Louis, twice from Steve Brodie's 165-ft. Brooklyn Bridge,* once from a 170-ft. Aurora Bridge over Lake Union at Seattle. Going off the 185-ft. San Francisco-Oakland Bridge was Wood's 185th high bridge dive. Had it been successful he hoped for a permit to dive (for a fee) from the new 220-ft. Golden Gate Bridge whence nine men fell to their deaths last month (TIME, March...
Cancer by Inheritance The University of Chicago's remarkable Professor Maud Slye last week did two remarkable things: 1) She autopsied her 119,185th mouse. 2) She published in the American Journal of Cancer strong evidence that susceptibility to cancer is inheritable. But the susceptibility can be bred out of a family by judicious marriage. Like light hair, it is a genetically recessive characteristic, whereas resistance to cancer is like dark hair, a dominant characteristic. Susceptibility alone probably is not enough to insure a person's developing a cancer. There must also be an external factor (a bruise...
...Conrad?won more than their usual share of blues. In the harness classes, there was a seasoned show-horse which no comparatively new competitor could hope to displace. This was Mr. & Mrs. Paul Moore's aging bay harness mare, Seaton Pippin. On the opening night she won her 185th blue ribbon...
...last meeting of the Aeronautical Society, officers for next year were elected. The new president, E. H. Kelton Occ., is also vice-president of the Intercollegiate Flying Association, and served overseas as a first lieutenant with the 185th Flying Squadron. The vice-president is J. B. Garver 1L., formerly overseas with the 25th American Squadron, where he downed three planes in combat. R. Blynn Varnum, elected corresponding secretary, served as instructor at Issoudon; France, and later with the 166th Squadron. The recording secretary W. W. Johnson '20, was an ensign in Naval Aviation at Pensacola...