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Divorced. By Orator Francis Woodward, 56, multimillionaire gelatin heir (Jell-O): Mary Trask Woodward, his second wife; in Reno. Reported to have settled $1,000,000 on his first wife, Persis Davis Woodward, he was ordered last June to pay Wife No. 2 $42,000 a year separate maintenance...
...Annals of Surgery, a group of Detroit scientists described their blood substitute, which is cheap, plentiful, harmless-and comes from the kitchen. The substance: pectin-a whitish, grainy carbohydrate, made from grapefruit, lemons or other fruit. Housewives use pectin to put jell into jellies; surgeons sometimes use it externally as a wound healer...
...Atatürk's great accomplishment, like Peter the Great's, was in breaking with his country's past. Inönii, coming from truly Oriental forebears, is satisfied to let the Westernization jell. He will never be dignified by such a statue as the one of Kamâl Atatürk which dom inates the Golden Horn, showing the great Kamal in a dinner jacket with cuffs on the trousers. Yet when Inb'nu. soon after taking office, had to decide whether to ally Turkey with Britain and France or whether to attempt Oriental...
...prepare U.S. radio listeners for a week during which it became difficult to tune in without hearing Benny hailed or Jell-O joshed, Variety had published a Benny issue, complete with impressive data on the rise and take* of radio's richest earner. On one program Eddie Cantor recited: "You've come up the hard way. old fellow, I mean the hard way, not the soft way like Jell-O." On another', Punster Fred Allen spent 60 minutes abusing his friendly enemy while Wife Portland tried to finish a squeaky paean beginning: ''All hail...
...Nonetto" for chamber orchestra and chorus which follows is less successful, chiefly because having no formal pattern into which to throw his ideas, and imposing no mental limitations on himself, the composer dilates and drifts around to such an extent that the thing does not jell. It becomes more a series of stunning effects than a clearly discernible whole. Still, for what they are, the effects, caused by a varied and beautifully recorded percussion and passionate inter-jections from the chorus, are extremely striking. Also effective is "The Ox-Cart Driver's Song" for soprano and piano, sung by Elsic...