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...spleen, or milt, is a ductless gland 2½ by 4½ in. lying under the lower left ribs. It does not seem to have any particular secretion like other ductless glands, its value to the body is not well understood. In unborn children its chief duty seems to be to help make red blood cells. Destroying worn-out and useless blood cells seems to be its prime function after birth. It may be cut out with apparently only transient inconvenience to the person. When ruptured it must come out quickly...
...Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...
Halfway between Artist Lynd Ward (God's Man, Madman's Drum} and Cartoonist Milt Gross (He Done Her Wrong} comes Satirist William Cropper. Without Ward's arty symbolism or Gross's simple artfulness, he tells a straight story, then horses it a little...
...Milt Gross of the American portrayed the imaginary effect on Brooklyn Jewish life of the hero's return: "Hm, you didn't hoid Meester Feitelbaum from Seedney Frenklin wot he fight witt bools. ... So it geeves chirrs de pipple wot it guzz in wodeweel de bool-fighter wot he bicomes yat from tsigarattes in de papers a in-duster. So Isidor (SMACK) ... you be batter a Seedney Frenklin und dunt gatting on de reputt codd a D yat in bool-fighting maybe...
...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...