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...East Orange High School during the '208, Margaret fought the Scopes trial with her friends (she was on Clarence Darrow's side, in favor of teaching evolution) and secretly read The Sheik. By the time she got to Wellesley, she was writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Clifton Daggett Gray, 73, Baptist theologian and third president (1920-44) of Bates College (which sanctioned undergraduate smoking and dancing, doubled in size and endowment under his administration); of a heart ailment; in Kennebunk, Me. In 1927 he emerged undefeated from a debate with Clarence Darrow on the subject: "What...
...body of water and salts. Doctors have tried to prevent dehydration by feeding the victims large amounts of saline fluids, but this treatment did not help much. Something was needed-some substance that made it possible for babies to retain the fluids. After long study, Pediatrician Daniel C. Darrow, of Yale's School of Medicine, decided that potassium was the important substance; the old treatments were not using enough of it. Babies with diarrhea sometimes lose one-fourth of the potassium in their body cells...
...Darrow began to give sick babies potassium injections, found that the treatment reduced deaths to "a very low figure." Reporting his improved treatment last week to medicos in Albany, N.Y., the doctor cautioned that too rapid injections may cause heart block. At the University of Texas School of Medicine, nurses who have given the Darrow treatment reported "miraculous" results...
...probable starting lineup: Snook, g; Darrow, l.f.; Wogan, r.f.; Weiss, r.h.; Gabler, c.h.; Hansen, l.h.; Houston, r.o.; Krogius, r.i. Garden, c.f.; Johnson, l.i.; Wolf...