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Ever since he told a convention of physiologists at Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 16) that he had replaced the ovaries of Nora, mature chimpanzee, with a woman's ovaries, and then succeeded in; impregnating her with human sperms by artificial means, Dr. Serge Voronoff of Paris has been the subject of much lay and scientific speculation. Nora's baby, biologically human, but prenatally an ape, was to be born in January. In August she was reported "progressing normally." Then no more bulletins . . . until last week. Pressed for information, Dr. Voronoff made answer...
...After receiving the human ovaries, Nora had menstruated as regularly as before...
...present Nora has served to demonstrate that a chimpanzee deprived of its ovaries can be 'regulated' afresh if one grafts in her the ovaries of a woman, which proves the close relationship between the higher apes and ourselves, since our organs are interchangeable. I therefore have reason to say that the higher apes constitute a station of spare [exchange] parts for the human machine...
...question of fecundating the borrowed ovaries, one must make new experiments, for in scientific research it is necessary to have much patience." Scientists awaited the publication of Dr. Voronoff's full report on human-ovaried Nora, meantime noting as fallacies in Dr. Voronoff's reports to date...
Reported Engaged. Roland Hayes, U. S. Negro tenor; to the Countess Colloredo of Austria. The Countess divorced the Count in order to marry the singer. Onetime Nora Iselin of Manhattan, now the Countess Colloredo-Mannsfeld, is married into another branch of the family. Mr. Hayes had been giving successful recitals in Vienna...