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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago, at Yonkers Professional Hospital, Dr. Maraventano and his assistants went to work, in an operation lasting three hours. The operation revealed a true testicle in the left side of the groin. In the pelvis, there were an undifferentiated "boggy mass" and suggestions of vestigial Fallopian tubes, but no true uterus and no ovarian tissue. By plastic surgery...
Five years ago Chicago Merchant Maurice Goldblatt declared unrelenting war on cancer, which had caused the death of his younger brother Nathan. Later the Goldblatt Foundation gave $1,000,000 to kick off a fund drive for a University of Chicago research center (TIME, Dec. 8, 1947). Last week exuberant little Maurice Goldblatt himself laid the cornerstone for the $2,075,000 Nathan Goldblatt Memorial Hospital...
Citation, second leading money-earner of all time ($865,150) and generally ranked with Man o' War, has been idle since he was "fired"* for an ankle injury five months ago. According to present plans, he will run in Chicago this summer. Shuddering to think of how much poundage handicappers would pile on him, Ben Jones is looking ahead to such weight-for-age fall classics as Belmont's Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Pimlico Special...
...redhead, even though he is assistant professor of biology at Yale? The absence of snakes in Ireland, as anyone knows (whether their name just happens to be Kelly, O'Flaherty, Dunne or O'Rourke), is the direct outcome of the fact that 1,500 years ago the good St. Patrick himself stood on a hill in the Galty Mountains and ordered the vipers away...
Make a Point. Aristide Pierre Maurin was born 71 years ago on a farm in the Languedoc region of southern France. When Pierre was 14, he went away to a school near Paris run by the Christian Brothers; five years later he was teaching there. He heard much talk then of the "proletariat" and of revolution. But to farm-boy Maurin such solutions did not seem to be solutions at all. Man, he felt, should stay close to the land...