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...Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year, aged 19, she married Robert Monroe Ferguson, bore him a son and a daughter, went West to homestead in New Mexico. Mr. Ferguson died in 1921 and she married his good friend John Greenway two years later. Mr. Greenway died...
...Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis; and Evelyn Ames, 23 daughter of Botany Professor Oakes Ames of Harvard; in North Easton, Mass. Married. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), 40, widow of Enrico Caruso; and Dr. Charles Adams Holder, 60, inhabitant of Paris; in Paris. Married. Martha Munro Ferguson. 25, daughter of Arizona's famed, comely Mrs. Isabella Greenway whose glamorous history includes ranching, cattle-raising, copper-mining, acting as bridesmaid for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, seconding the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago; and Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; at Mrs. Greenway's ranch near...
...Russell Sweetser Ferguson of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital got the clue for his teratoma detector from Dr. Bernhard Zondek, German Jew now without a job (TIME, June 5). Dr. Zondek and Dr. Selmar Aschheim, his colleague, found that the pituitary gland of women enlarges during pregnancy and produces two sex hormones, Prolan A and Prolan B. As soon as a woman begins to gestate a baby she begins to create those hormones, and they promptly appear in her urine...
...pregnant women produce Prolan A and Prolan B, perhaps men with teratomata might produce the same sex hormones. In Manhattan Dr. Ferguson was excited by this surmise as was Dr. Zondek in Germany. Dr. Ferguson pounced on the premise. Memorial Hospital gave him plenty of teratoma cases and enabled Dr. Ferguson to announce last week (in the American Journal of Cancer) that the hormone test for teratomata is 98% positive. It detects a testicular monstrosity within three weeks of the onset of the swelling. The younger the teratoma, that is, the more primitive the fetal elements, the stronger...
Engaged. Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of the University of Chicago's famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; and Martha Ferguson, 25, daughter of Mrs. John C. Greenway, friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The engagement was inadvertently announced by Mrs. Roosevelt at a Press conference, when newshawks asked who her White House visitors "Martha and Chuck" were...