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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform was sky-blue, wasp-waisted, gold-buttoned, with gold band on a high-crowned pillbox...
...further marvel-a fatherless rabbit, born from an ovum which had never encountered the male fertilizing element at all. This process, called parthenogenesis, occurs naturally among certain insects, has been artificially induced by man in sea urchins and frogs, but never before in a mammal. Dr. Pincus used high temperature, hormone treatments and hypertonic salt solutions* to fertilize the ovum, and his canny microsurgical technique got the egg well started toward normal development in the host mother's reproductive tract...
...horn (musicians call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither her distracted...
...churches, Armistice Day has been an occasion for thoughts of peace, for high resolve to keep out of wars. Last week the Federal Council of Churches issued a special 1939 Armistice Day request: let all its 131,043 constituent and cooperating churches in the U. S. set their bells a-tolling at 11:02 a.m. Object: "A protest against war . . . a prayer for peace." As amen, the North American Guild of Carillonneurs promised that all 50-odd U. S. carillons would also tintinnabulate...
...Leland Hobart Danforth asked for a chance at the parish. Just out of seminary, he took over at $35 per month, increased the congregation to 500. On a visit to Washington's National Cathedral, he saw what a drawing card the tomb of Woodrow Wilson was. Father (because high church) Danforth resolved to obtain some popular Chicago dust-that of Eugene Field, buried in Graceland Cemetery...