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...increase in the alcohol yield of grains can be had by using bread molds instead of the conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol...
...Boveway, was a study in rippling marble. Best working dog was the ugly, muscular boxer, Dorian von Marienhof, whose owner year ago incorporated him at $4,000, sold $1 shares to such folk as Jack Dempsey, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936). The best toy, Tang Hao of Cavershawm Catawba, was, as usual, a Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound. Other finalists were Torohill Smoky and the best terrier, a pert little wire-haired...
Little Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao was beautifully married. It took four days. On her way up Annam's great mandarin road along the coast she stopped off to climb a mountain and drink of the "frozen spring." Outside Huê, a cavalcade of palace mandarins on short native Phu-Yen horses met her in the Valley of Clouds and escorted her through the three walls of the Red City into the Palace of Passengers. Next day, dressed in a great brocaded Annamite gown, she stepped into an automobile and was driven to the Emperor's Palace, followed...
When the Emperor announced his choice of a wife, someone blundered by giving out the news that Pope Pius XI was considering a bargain to let Nguyen Huu Hao remain a Catholic if she gave the Church her girl children. The Holy Father is thoroughly aware of the political and religious state of affairs in Annam. It would be foolish to embarrass the French Government with any dogmatic decisions. The Christian girl may have much or little to say about what her children become. And the less the Annamites know about it the better...
Married. Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic; and Bao Dai, 21, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; in Hûe, Annam Married. Nila Cram Cook, 25, eccentric onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi; and Albert M. Hutchins, 28, steward on the freighter which brought her home to the U. S. from India; in Manhattan...