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Last week China was crowing loudly over a marvel unknown to medical history. Not ultraphenomenal sextuplets, not hypersuperlative septuplets, but metaphysical octuplets were blazoned in the headlines of the Chinese Press. Seven sons and a daughter, seven felicitous stars and a comforting moon, were reported to have been born several months ago to the wife of Sam Ting, a Pearl River boatman. Only trouble with this Chinese marvel was that no one could substantiate it because Sam Ting, Mrs. Ting & family were supposed to be boating somewhere in Pearl River delta below Canton...
...from a few millions to two billion in the last 2,000 years, the world can count mathematically on only one set of octuplets being born every 690,000 years. As Physicist James Jeans declares that the Age of Man runs back 300,000 years, Mrs. Ting's marvel seemed to be some 390,000 years ahead of time...
...building, but unique in its way. Never have more than 50 newshawks appeared at one of Mr. Farley's Press conferences, but when he invited the Press to last week's "house-warming" in his new private office, no less than 150 newsmen went to see and marvel. Twice as large as an ordinary living room, it was a study in green and brown. One whole wall was a bank of French windows facing on a sunny balcony. At opposite ends rose huge black marble fireplaces. Before one of them sat Mr. Farley, in a green leather armchair...
...Marvel to the U. S. has been San Francisco's operatic behavior all through Depression. Its seasons have been brief but even with expensive, imported singers they have usually paid for themselves. Two years ago the handsome municipal opera house was dedicated. Later Impresario Gaetano Merola stocked it with chorus and ballet schools, the only U. S. organizations of 'the kind outside New York...
Neither cheerful nor proud was Papa Ovila Dionne last week at his frontier farmhouse near Callander, Ont. as his five little daughters went into a third recordbreaking week of life, to the marvel of the medical profession throughout the world. Marie, the frailest, upon whom the others had rolled when they were all in the one butcher's basket, was the first one to be placed in an incubator all to herself. Five days later each of the other four had her private quarters and a better chance for life. Three trained nurses were...