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...Journal of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Russell E. Marker, veteran hormone researcher, reported that botogenin, a substance providing a short cut to one of the 37 stages in the expensive, laborious transformation of ox bile into cortisone, was found in a common yam of tropical America, Dioscorea mexicana...
...Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, 69, testy expert on the U.S. Constitution. A stout man with a bristling mustache, Vermonter Powell was a pitiless and unpredictable examination marker. Known among legal scholars as the "dean of constitutional law," he was once asked whether he would take a Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution. "Certainly," replied Powell. "It has been supporting me for the last 25 years...
Sorrowful Jones (Paramount), a remake of Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker, turns out to be a major salvage operation. The original 1934 Hollywood version lifted Shirley Temple to stardom. The current version, though it has very little to do with Runyon, lifts Comedian Bob Hope out of an accumulated litter of silly scripts, props and costumes, and gives him a new grip on the U.S. public's funny bone...
...minister intoned the words of the Episcopal burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" An honor guard of Marine riflemen fired three sharp volleys over the plain white wooden marker: "James V. Forrestal, Lieut. U.S.N." and a Marine bugler sounded taps. In the crowd of departing mourners, hat in hand, went the man who had begun to carry on from the point where the doughty, dedicated spirit of James Forrestal had finally given...
...mile marker the Crimson was an even length in front, and pulled this lead out to two lengths to finish going away...