Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure? Dr. Spurway suggests that a woman who claims such a pregnancy can be tested by a skin-grafting operation if the child is born alive. Ordinarily, no skin graft from one human being to another (except between identical twins) "takes" permanently, because of cell differences. A normal child's cells are slightly different even from the mother's, because they have some of the father's antigens. A successful graft from child to mother would show that the child had received no antigens from any other source...
...comparatively short career -until last week she had played only three major parts on Broadway -Julie Harris has established herself as, at the very least, the best young actress in America. A European director calls her "one of the few great actresses of the age." The critics, forgetting their normal caution, have noted her "enormous range," her "incomparable sensibility," her "genius." Her fellow actors agree. Helen Hayes has solemnly passed on to her the handkerchief that Sarah Bernhardt gave to Julia Marlowe -sure symbol of her succession as first lady of the American theater. Ethel Barrymore, after Julie...
...University established the Office of Special Students in 1916 to permit "serious students beyond the normal college age" to take courses, for a period not over a year, without working toward any degrees. Aside from the Dean, these is also an Administrative Board to watch over those accepted for the program. Competition for the very limited enrollment in the department is so keen that usually not even the top scholars from other colleges are considered for eligibility. This is a recent development, however, indicative of the administrations desire to cut down on the number participating in the program. There were...
...normal letter winners from this year's team, which earned the best soccer record since 1937, will receive major H's, according to the decision of the 14-man council. The design of the letter will be determined at a later date...
...Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m.). Griffelkin is a little devil whose tenth-birthday gift is to be sent up to earth to raise a little hell. When he does a good deed, he is banished forever to earth, where he happily becomes, minus tail and horns, a normal small boy. What with a singing letter-box and dancing lions, Griffelkin was in the old operatic tradition. But the music did not sound much more inspired than the book. Most of the time the orchestra played far below the singers, as if it were off in another studio...