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...John Quintin Griffith Jr., and colleagues at Penn's Medical School clinic, discovered several years ago that the blood serum of some patients with high blood pressure contained a pituitary hormone which slows up the secretion of urine. A synthetic preparation of the hormone, called pitressin, was found to have a peculiar property: injected into a patient, it reduces urine secretion at first, but after a few days increases...
...Francisco, where Mayor Roger Lapham and California's Attorney General Robert Kenny helped her celebrate. (She crowed happily: "These parties are getting more interracial every year-and for that reason I enjoy them more each year.") In Washington, 12,000 fans at a special Negro ball game in Griffith Stadium sang Let Me Call You Sweetheart to the absent guest of honor. In 38 other U.S. cities, her admirers remembered...
Back in 1916, tiny, tidy Emily Griffith was a red-haired eighth-grade schoolteacher in a poor district of Denver. Distressed because so many boys & girls were dropping out of school, she went to their homes to learn why. They were needed as breadwinners. Too often, their parents had lost jobs because they were illiterate or unskilled. The children could get work while they were young, but one day they would be in the same fix. Emily decided to start a "second chance" school for adults -to prove that opportunity always knocks twice...
Knock, Knock. First Emily cajoled the Board of Education into giving her a shabby old brick school building in downtown Denver-and appropriating some money.* Then she persuaded the Denver Post and the Denver trolley cars to plug the idea in stories and signs. Within a month after Emily Griffith's new Opportunity School had opened its doors, it had 600 students. Opportunity taught anybody (one, a retired barber, was 82). Over the school door was lettered the simple motto: "For all who wish to learn...
...students, Emily Griffith would perhaps have been proudest of a 26-year-old veteran, racing against approaching blindness. Opportunity had set up special training apparatus for him to study electricity, using bells instead of lights as signals. He planned to open his own electrical repair shop in Pueblo, when the night closed...