Word: lathrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might include also, just any ordinary man. We are talking about The Edwardian Era, by Andre Maurois (Appleton-Century, $3.00): Charles the First, by Hillaire Belloc (J. B. Lippincott, $4.00): Mary Queen of Scots, by Eric Linklater (Appleton-Century, $1.50); and An American Colossus, by Ralph Edward Bailey (Lathrop, Lee & Shepard, $3.00). In these four presentations we find a bit of history in the making told through the lives of four of the greats. Mr. Maurois is particularly witty in his new biography, one of the best that he has turned out to date. Mr. Belloc has successfully evaded dullness...
Incidentally, we've forgotten that you may have a younger member of the family to remember this season, and we have found just the thing for him (or her) in the line of books in Pepper by Hugh King Harris (Lathrop). Lee & Shepard, $1.50). This canine counterpart of Black Beauty is the "autobiography" of a lively little terrier who will soon capture you with his drollness and lively antics. Speaking of the animal world, Marguerite Steen has a new biography, Spider (Little, Brown, $2.50), is the story of the life of Richard Adams, the composer, told in the fascinating manner...
...actual work began in 1908 when she was 29 and had six precious dollars to spend for six imported grey & white spotted Japanese mice. She intended to study their general genetic behavior. But when she crossed them with colored mice which she bought from the late Abby Lathrop, famed mouse fancier of Granby, Mass., and discovered cancer in a progeny. Professor Slye at once began to concentrate on the inheritance of cancer. Her laboratory now is a three-story, greystone house, at the west border of the University of Chicago campus, at No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. Down at the corner...
...Chicago, Runner-up Addams announced her own list of twelve greatest, dropping six poll winners including herself. Her substitutes: Lacy Stone Blackwell, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Florence Kelley, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Lillian Wald...
Senior Kudos. To Dr. Charles Lathrop Parsons, 65, went the American Chemical Society's senior kudos, the Priestley Medal. He has been the Society's secretary for 25 years, its business manager since last year. His work in pure chemistry flowered 30 years ago when he was busily exposing the properties of beryllium. As chief chemist of the Bureau of Mines he was a leader in the chemical prosecution of the War. Since 1919 he has practiced in Washington as a consultant chemist...