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LONDON--German "Big Bertha" guns today flung salvoes of shells into an English coastal town after relentless night assaults by British bombers on an 300-mile stretch of Adolf Hitler's "Invasion front" and his war centers of Bremen and Hanover...
...Geography Institute also announced other lectures, open to the public without charge, on various phases of modern geographical exploration. The schedule will be: February 24, "Black Head-hunters of the Pacific," Dr. Douglas L. Oliver, of the Peabody Museum, Harvard; March 10, "Ascent of Mount Bertha," Bradford Washburn; March 17, "Searching for the First Agriculturists," Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum; March 24, "Iceberg Ahead," William M. Rand, Jr.; April 14, "Australian Aborigines and Half-Castes," Joseph B. Birdsell; April 21, "Search for Sleeping Island," P. G. Downes; May 5, "Dominica, The Caribs' Last Stronghold," Walter H, Hodge...
...scarlet fever germ, famed Princeton Pediatrician Sara Josephine Baker, founder of New York City's Bureau of Child Hygiene, Columbia University Surgeon Barbara Bartlett Stimson, Philadelphia Public Health Expert Martha Tracy, Head of the American Women's Hospitals Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Chicago's Surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen (TIME...
...small bright star at the American College of Surgeons' Clinical Congress in Chicago last week was tiny, twinkling, 77-year-old Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen. She twinkled over a two-foot, mangerlike box. With this box and a kit of surgeon's tools, she ran a surgical kindergarten, showed scores of women doctors how a Caesarean operation is done...
LONDON--Waves of British bombers tonight smashed savagely at Adolf Hitler's "invasion ports" all along the Channel coast in what appeared to be an assault of unprecedented violence shortly after Nazi "Big Bertha" guns had shelled Dover...