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Book Two is a piece of natural history in human terms: the story of a queen bee. Eula Varner is a semi-superhuman embodiment of unmitigated sex, already embarrassingly female at the age of eight. As she ripens, the male community establishes itself in quavering, fighting concentrics of courtship: first raw boys, then slick sports in shiny buggies. But it is Flem who finally gets her. He takes her to Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius- | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...When Eula Herbert of Chacahoula, La. was eight years old her mother stopped lengthening her dresses. At 14, Eula was still the same size: height not quite four feet, weight 52 pounds. Then the Associated Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cornstalk | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

While Tennist Helen Hull Jacobs embarked for London where she will again be the guest of U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, in Palo Alto, Calif. Mrs. Eula Hull Jacobs denied that her daughter would marry the Embassy's First Secretary Herschel V. Johnson, revealed that Helen was beginning a novel "not about tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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