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...self-styled "Irish-American," Ward says little that would identify him to a U. S. audience. Like his English counterpart Lord Haw-Haw, Ward preferred to remain unknown, once admitted: "America is my natal land. . . . I'm not so blind that I can't see where we may learn something from others, and I myself am one of those most in need of education. ... I had become a bored and cynical NOman...
Then Drs. Bernstine and Bland picked at random 228 volunteers, women attending Jefferson's pre-natal clinic. Most of them had pregnancy complications, including anemia, tuberculosis, heart disease, venereal disease. Some of these complications, noted Drs. Bernstine and Bland, are "factors predisposing, either directly or indirectly, to puerperal infection...
Upon a 36-foot, red-satin bed called "The Ardent Couch" an unclad Venus lies dreaming. Of her four uninhibited dreams, the first-an underwater vision called "Venus's Pre-natal Château Beneath the Water"-is the real crowd-catcher. A long glass tank is filled with such subaqueous décor as a fireplace, typewriters with funguslike rubber keys, rubber telephones, a man made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali...
With its tanglewood of woozy detail, the Dream of Venus took months to assemble, twice postponed its opening. A typical headache was to find water for "Venus's Pre-natal Château" tank that was clear and nondistorting. Ordinary filtered city water finally filled the bill. Another headache was to find 17 girls able to do virtually a vaudeville act under water. Some, like puckish little Kelcey Carr (see cut}, were plucked out of Greenwich Village dives, some were recruited from strictly amateur ranks through friends of the management. All are comely and most...
...mosquitoes should reach "the well-watered Parnahyba and Sâo Francisco River Valleys [in east-central Brazil]," wrote Mr. Fosdick, ". . . it would be impossible to prevent [their] spread to a large part of South. Central, and perhaps even North America. The Parnahyba Valley is 500 miles from Natal; the gambiae mosquitoes are already nearly half way there...