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Hormonal Personalities. Dr. Walter Freeman, grandson of Philadelphia's late great nonogenarian Dr. William Williams Keen, practices neuropsychiatry in Washington. He dissected 1,400 lunatics after their deaths to find out what effects, if any, their endocrine glands may have had upon their distorted personalities. He also studied the personalities of several hundred normal characters who suffered from hormonal disturbances of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous...
John Davison Rockefeller, astute nonogenarian with potent holdings in National City Bank, who reputedly advised the younger Stillman to resign the institution's presidency because of scandal ten years ago. Grandfather of the groom, he kept to his home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., sent his blessing...
...Jersey. Mr. Reynolds most recently distinguished himself in his work for Bank of International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23, 1929). Some day the bank may leave its dingy Victorian building at Broadway and Wall Street. But for at least another century it will carry with it the legend of its nonogenarian founder, which has just begun to grow. Except for Rockefeller, he was the last of the eigth Century Titans...
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