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...Love." Since the Duke of Gloucester was obliged to mourn last week, he prepared to withdraw to the bachelor seclusion of his regiment at Catterick Camp. It was he who in 1926 represented King George at the marriage of Belgian Crown Prince Leopold and the beautiful young Swedish Princess who last week died Queen Astrid...
Sheep's Wool & Sex. "We have a positive cure for homosexuality," exclaimed Professor Leopold Ruzicka, a Swiss organic chemist who lectured at the University of Chicago this summer. In 1931 Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Danzig discovered in the urine of men (and some women) the hormone which establishes masculinity in men (and some women). That male sex hormone was named androsterone. Last year Professor Ruzicka manufactured androsterone from cholesterol collected from the grease of sheep's wool. Last June Dr. E. Laqueur of Amsterdam discovered still another, more potent male sex hormone. Professor Ruzicka now expects to make...
Married. Maria Jeritza, 41, Austrian opera singer, longtime prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, divorced wife of Baron Leopold von Popper de Podhragy of Hungary; and Winfield Richard ("Winnie") Sheehan, 51, onetime New York World police reporter, long-time (1926-35) vice president of Fox Films in charge of production until his recent resignation (TIME,, July 29); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...head of Inland are the brothers Block, Philip Dee, president, and Leopold E., chairman, sons of a Cincinnati ironmonger. Visitors seldom find them both at their own desks because each is continually popping into the other's office to argue, suggest, consult. Philip Block is the operating head. As such he supervised the building of Inland's new $20,000,000 finished steel mill at Indiana Harbor, Ind. which, though it looked like a bad investment in 1931 and 1932, is currently responsible for most of Inland's profits. Leopold Block is the financial head and used...
...Nazi flag with its great swastika. The Reds, as Germans fully expected they would be, were at once attacked by New York policemen. During this Wild West conflict, Captain Leopold Ziegenbein stood aloof and calm on the Bremen's bridge in a uniform of cool white duck. Said he as New York ambulances clanged away with dozens of injured and his ship prepared to sail for Germany: "We don't know what the future has in store for us. We don't know what is going to happen next...