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Maisie is, unexpectedly, Cinemactress Ann Sothern, who, at 30, after five years in cinema, finds herself a find. Cinemaddicts know curvilinear Ann Sothern as a glamor girl, and as a glamor girl she has endured all the familiar permutations. When she was born in North Dakota, her name was Harriette Lake (of the submarine Lakes). When Columbia Pictures signed her, Harriette changed her name to Ann Sothern, dyed her brown hair to varying blonde shades, got nowhere in particular. RKO took her over, let her hair drift back to its natural shade, called her a "brownette," let her endorse Luckies...
Nature of the Man. Among great modern scientists Edwin Grant Conklin stands out by being oldfashioned. He began his academic career as a country schoolteacher, dispensing all knowledge in the rural scholastic grab bag and performing as janitor to boot. Born during the Civil War in Waldo, Ohio, son of a country doctor, he almost entered the Methodist ministry but plumped for science instead. Ohio Wesleyan gave him his A.B. and A.M., Johns Hopkins his Ph.D. After teaching biology for 20 years at Ohio Wesleyan and elsewhere, he was summoned to Princeton...
...famed Thomas Hunt Morgan, once an extreme proponent of the mutation theory, now admits that evolution cannot work without natural selection. But Conklin has had to take cracks in return from his friend Morgan. Remembering Conklin's famous mollusc studies, when the first Conklin daughter was born, Dr. Morgan suggested naming her Crepidula...
...sermon was later read by Dr. Fosdick's good friend and chief parishioner, John D. Rockefeller Jr., builder of the soaring, carillonned, $4,000,000 church, which he provided as Dr. Fosdick's spiritual home when the evangelical U. S. churches proved too confining for the Buffalo-born minister...
Jeidels was born an insider, the son of an old Frankfurt Jewish banking family. Thirty-four years ago when he was in his twenties he began his career by writing ponderous, respectable tomes on Germany's growing steel industry. Later he worked in the very unerudite Manhattan brokerage shop of art-collecting Jules Bache. By 1908 he was back in Germany with its Metal Trust (whose presiding genius, Dr. Alfred Merton, was one of the German sponsors of Dictator Franco's rebellion...