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...raised to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Last week, to many a Frenchman troubled by L' Affaire Stavisky, it came as a shock to be reminded that Colonel Dreyfus still lived. In a Paris hospital, tortured by nightmares of Devil's Island, afflicted with gland trouble and nearly blind, the central figure in the most famed of France's causes célebrès was passing his 75th birthday. For the running of the Langollen National Steeplechase on his Upperville, Va. estate, young Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney flew down from Manhattan in his new plane...
...bravery. Scientific minds saw no sense to this until about 75 years ago Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-94) concluded that such a diet somehow made men of weaklings. He sought the reason and found a testicular secretion which in infinitesimal amounts did what the whole gland could do. That potent quintessence came to be called a hormone. Other glands in the body were soon found to produce secretions of similar potency. Thus born was the modern science of endocrinology.* Since Brown-Séquard's original demonstrations more and more hormones have been discovered. They occur...
Died. Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 86, President of Germany; of an atrophied prostate gland; in Neudeck, Germany...
Died. Zaro Agha. circa 160. a Turk believed to be the oldest man in the world; of uremia; in Istanbul. Doctors who examined Zaro Agha thought his abnormal pituitary gland responsible for his longevity, never wholly subscribed to his statement that he was born two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
...program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw led the world with a 158,000-watt station. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley's troublesome XER, across the Mexican border, acclaimed itself largest in North America with 75,000 watts. WLW's new 500,000-watt equipment makes it ten times stronger than any of its 20 biggest rivals in the U. S. Most spectacular item is its antenna...