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Anxious to regain control in a normally Democratic city, Boss Burr Gongwer, Congressman Martin L. Sweeney and ex-Mayor Harry L. Davis, Democrats long at outs, joined in supporting City Engineer John O. McWilliams in a supreme effort to bury the hatchet in the stout neck of Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton. They managed to line up organized labor. Representative Sweeney, mindful of next year's Congressional elections, sang the theme: "The election of McWilliams will deprive Mrs. Hanna of her caviar and champagne...
Yale's learned Neuro-Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr last year revealed that a complicated electrical device he and associates invented could tell when a woman's ovary had produced a full-grown ovum and thus put her in the essential preliminary state for having a baby (TIME, Nov. 23). Such foreknowledge might guide a woman's conduct in case she did not want to have a baby. Professor Burr immediately denied that his "vacuum tube microvoltmetre for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena" provided any such useful domestic data. Disappointed were many good citizens-not all of whom...
...technique requires an electrical gadget whose invention may bring Dr. Burr a Nobel Prize. In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...
Last year Dr. Burr was absolutely sure that a surge in the micropotential of rabbits and cats, as registered on the microvoltmetre, indicated ovulation simply because he could cut those creatures open and examine the state of their ovaries. But since he could not perform a major operation on a woman just to confirm the meaning of an electrical surge through her flesh, he had to wait until a lucky break provided him this year with an amiable woman who was scientifically-minded and going to have an abdominal operation anyway...
...Burr and his subject delayed the operation until the day when previous microvoltmetre readings predicted an ovum would rupture out of a follicle of an ovary and cause a faint electrical upset. That overture to gestation occurred at 7:05 p.m. July 24 and threw the microvoltmetre out of whack for several seconds. Immediately the woman's potential slowly decreased. Said Dr. Burr last week: "The condition continued until midnight when the experiment was terminated in order that the patient might obtain a night's rest. Next morning a laparotomy was done, the ovaries examined...