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...trick is done with hormones. Unlike some other domestic animals (e.g., mares), a ewe does not come into breeding condition soon after lambing. If she "lambs" in spring, she is seldom ready to start again until the following fall. Working under an Armour grant, Professor Frank X. Gassner of Colorado A. & M. found that carefully measured and timed injections of a gonadotrophin a few weeks after lambing could make 100 ewes produce a fall crop of 65 to 85 extra lambs. A control group of 25 ewes without hormone injections was given a ram for company, but only...
Minnie and Mr. Williams (by Richard Hughes; produced by John Gassner & David Dietz) reached Broadway 25 years after it was written, and ran for less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie Dowling), his wooden-legged wife Minnie (Josephine Hull), a young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws...
Germany under Hitler had changed unrecognizably. Sebold got a job in a turbine factory, tried to settle down. When he got a letter from a Dr. Gassner (Heil Hitler!) asking him to dinner "to talk over old times" he laughed. Friends told him it was no laughing matter, urged him to take the letter to Gestapo headquarters. He did so, found the Gestapo cool, suspicious. Presently another letter came, threatening him unless he met Gassner. He went to the U.S. consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept...
...monoplane for use over sheltered waters and rivers on Pan American's foreign routes. Its top speed is specified at 180 m. p. h., about 40 m. p. h. better than the fastest commercial amphibion so far. To speed it up that much, Fairchild's Designer Albert Gassner (oldtime Fokker engineer) had to devise some radical treatment of the pontoons and landing gear, which are what make most amphibions slow. His solution was to make the wheel and wingtip floats fold into the wing, forming a sleek flying-boat when the ship is in flight. The engine...
...each heat qualified for finals. First heat--won by Edwards (N.Y.U.); second, Hackney (Michigan); third, Garland (Princeton); fourth, Elmer (Cornell); fifth, Milstead (Georgetown). Time--1 min. 58 9-10 sec. Second heat--won by Veit (N.Y.U.); second, R. P. Porter '29; third, Offenhauser (Penn State); fourth, Chapman (Bates); fifth, Gassner (N.Y.U.). Time...