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...Houssay's most important work has been on the pituitary gland. (He discovered that pituitary secretions play a part in diabetes.) But he and his colleagues have also published nearly 300 reports on a wide range of medical studies. His monumental Human Physiology, considered by some the finest physiology text ever written, will soon be published in English by McGraw-Hill for worldwide distribution -the first Latin American scientific work to be given such recognition. Dr. Houssay has been honored by scientists and leaders of a dozen nations (including the British Royal Society). But in Argentina...
...George Curley invited us," said manager Walter J. Skinner '48, "and when I called him at City Hall last week I was switched through half the family, including James Michael, before we got together." Curley expressed the eagerness of Boston's citizenry to see and hear the "finest," and offered the Band $200 for the day's work. When James Caeser Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians and amateurs' nemesis extraordinary, vetoed the proposed payment, the band agreed to donate its services in a good-will gesture...
Clearly, America's policy is encouraging and merits full support for two reasons. First, our barriers down, expanded world trade approach offers the best long run hope for any real world prosperity and economic peace. Second, a program of expansion both at home and throughout the world, is out finest and perhaps last chance to demonstrate the essential superiority of a free enterprise system as a medium for a high level of employment and standard of living as compared with the government controlled economics of other nations. By supporting a low tariff policy and by putting our own economic house...
...light oarsmen deserve better treatment for several reasons. They have occupied an official place in Harvard's athletic roster since the early twenties. In Bert Haines they have one of the finest and most colorful of crew coaches. Last season they rowed alternately 150 and Junior Varsity and went through the season undefeated in both classes...
...hastily, and training them wisely. In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed in Rickey's new training school at Pensacola...