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Dates: during 1930-1939
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School children in Tacoma, Wash, gazed with solemn curiosity last week at their schoolmates Veronica Pratt, 17, and Patrick Pratt, 9, whose British-born mother, Mrs. Sunya Pratt, had just become the first white Buddhist priestess...
Letters. Pulitzer novel of the year was Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (TIME, Aug. 26), a long, humorous, color ful account of pioneer days in Oregon, where Author Davis was born 40 years ago. Harold Davis was the first winner of the Harper Novel Prize ($7,500) to cash in on a Pulitzer award ($1,000) as well...
...newborn as blowing into their mouths, slapping their rumps with a wet towel, tossing them, artificial respiration. Dr. Wilson: "The lapse of one minute may be enough, through the absence of oxygen, to damage permanently the cells of the respiratory centre. Once the drug reaches the new born infant's general circulation, the respiratory gasp takes place in less than twelve seconds. Three constant reactions occur within one to four seconds before the respiratory gasp-an increase in muscle tonus, a stiffening of the arms, and a slight opisthotonos [arching of the back]." Commented Dr. George William Kosmak, conscientious...
Last week a tall, white-bearded old gentleman named Laurence Vincent Benet returned to make his home in the U. S. after 51 years in France. Born to a Civil War brigadier on the military reservation at West Point 73 years ago, he went to Paris in 1885 as a penniless young engi eer fresh from Yale. His job was with Hotchkiss & Cie., French armament concern founded by a Connecticut Yankee who had sold arms to the Union until 1865, moved to France before the Franco-Prussian War. Engineer Benet has spent most of his life perfecting the Hotchkiss machine...
...Benets are not returning to a strange land. Almost yearly they have traveled to the U. S., spending much of their time in Washington, where Mrs. Benet was born & reared as Georgetown's Margaret Cox, and where Mr. Benet-belongs to clubs like the Army & Navy and the Metropolitan. In Washington they will make their home...