Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud mothers. Two of the animal actors disqualified themselves at once-one by shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors and actresses (Jungle Jim scripts call for frequent bussing of Weissmuller). The winner was an ape without any theatrical experience-a female chimp named Peggy who had led a quiet life...
...graduate Center has been the dream of Mrs. Bernice B. Cronkhite, dean of the Graduate School, since 1936. Plans for the Center, to be built between Ash and Brattle Streets, were released 15 years ago, but no statement on the amount--if any--of funds raised so far is available...
...first rescue teams to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there...
...Ash Wednesday Message (Wed. 4:30 p.m., Mutual). Pope Pius XII, speaking from the Vatican...
Last week's New England Journal of Medicine tells how Vermont's State Pathologist Joseph W. Spelman solved the mystery. Cow's milk, he knew, differs from human milk in its relative amounts of calcium and phosphorus ash. Human milk during the first 30 days after a mother gives birth is also different from the milk of mothers between one and nine months after birth, and that of mothers after nine months. Analysis of the specks from the dead baby's stomach showed that their composition almost exactly matched that of mothers with babies nine months...