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...general way Austrian-born Adolf Hitler was known to be moving warily about South Germany, watching every phase of the bloody crisis in his Motherland from a ringside position. But one morning Munich buzzed with an arresting rumor: "He talked last night to The Man With the Cleft Nose...
...high Bavarian crag 45 minutes by motor from the nearest railway station perches Tiefenbrunn, the estate of cleft-nosed Dr. Kurt Schmitt. The view from his bedroom window is scarcely rivaled in all Bavaria. In bed last week with a telephone at his elbow the German Economics Minister was struggling with a strangling crisis in the Fatherland's economic life...
Similar sequences of conception and storm produce babies with cleft palates in Maine, babies with uncompleted spines (spina bifida) in Vermont, babies with genital defects in the U. S. Northwest...
Analysis of draftees showed the difference between men born in the North and in the South. Stormy Maine and Vermont presented five times as many cleft palates as did bland Arkansas and Arizona. Genital defects were excessively high in the Northwest. Testicular defects formed a track from Montana to Iowa, hypospadias from Montana to Illinois. Hermaphrodites were more common in the Northwest. Spina bifida, on the other hand, was apparently high at both the northeastern and the northwestern extremes of the U. S and in addition, formed a track from Nebraska through Missouri and Tennessee to South Carolina...
Professor Petersen presented reasons for those peculiarities of distributions. Said he: "Assuming that malformations are possibly due both to a genetic and to an environmental factor, I shall disregard the genetic phase. . .In the Northeast we find a high cleft-palate rate. We deal with a population that has been domiciled under the present climatic conditions for perhaps some 200 years or more. . . . Cleft palate and harelip are not fatal and do not prevent reproduction. Familiar strains present in the population would continue and the climatic instability would, if anything, enhance the frequency of such defects...