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...first prize for exhibits, a gold medal, went neither to the biggest, nor the neatest, nor the cleverest, nor the most learned presentation. Jacob Furth, an immunologist at the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, a onetime worker at the Rockefeller Institute, won the gold medal for his demonstration of experimental leucemia. Leucemia is a blood disease closely resembling cancer. The blood contains abnormally vast numbers of white blood cells. Usually the spleen and liver are hugely enlarged. Bone marrow is usually affected. Dr. Furth isolated a virus from leucemic chickens. The virus stimulated leucemia in other chickens...
...great volume from Isotta's Italian factories. To handle the plan, a new $5,000,000 company is said to have been formed in Italy, 51% owned by Isotta Fraschini Co. and the Italian Commercial Bank, 49% by Ford. In this exchange of licenses is perhaps the neatest tariff evasion yet devised...
...soul amidst the pottage. The France lectures also summarize succinctly the complicated maze of Rabelais' writing with inclusion of quips and incidents that are among the most amusing and the least vulgar. The neatest summary and the most judicious excerpts could give no conception of the texture of Rabelais' wit ; but they point to a profitable perusal of the 1.021 close-packed pages that comprise the works of the original Rabelaisian, now available in one volume...
...Athanase Vagliano, on the golden Riviera at minute, lovely Roquebrune. Everyone of the smart world has at least passed the place. As your "Blue Train" from Paris halts momentarily at Monte Carlo and then chuffs on to Menton, the prettiest station through which it speeds, the one with the neatest garden and the fairest palms, is Roquebrune. In the great house just visible through dense foliage lived ''The Greek," Europe's "Prince of Gamblers," and there he died?rich...
...debut on the stage. For the antics of Columnist Grouse all critics had a pretty word to say. Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic called him SourCrouse while the Actor-Journalist's wife, Alison Smith, able critic for the New York World, paid her husband the neatest compliment...