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...Could Only Cook (Columbia). A light-hearted variation on-the theme of Cinderella, the picture concerns a jobless girl (Jean Arthur) who picks up a young man (Herbert Marshall) on a park bench and, unaware that he is the president of Buchanan Automobile Co. on the lookout for novel recreation, persuades him to pose as her husband so that they can apply for cook and butler work together. Their employer turns out to be a genial racketeer (Leo Carrillo), who does all he can to further his domestics' increasingly complicated career. Failing to marry his cook himself, he discovers...
Calling at the chambers of the Missouri Supreme Court, Governor Guy Brasfield Park found one of the justices on the floor working feverishly to assemble his small son's electric train in time for Christmas. Sympathetic, the Governor squatted on his haunches, assembled the train, sent it zipping around the chambers for an hour and a half...
Gift of $500,000 soon enabled Professor Yerkes to house a second colony of chimpanzees on a 200-acre farm at Orange Park Fla. There Mona, 21, gave birth to the only known pair of anthropoid twins a male and a female (TIME, June ii 1934). There Gua, 7½-months, proved herself smarter in many respects than Donald Kellogg, 10 months (TIME. June 19 1933 et ante). There chimpanzees have proved that, although they cannot talk they can think and make rational decisions, that their intelligence and behavior are akin to human intelligence and behavior...
Last week Professor Yerkes announced in Science that the State of Florida has granted a charter of incorporation to the "Anthropoid Experiment Station of Yale University" at Orange Park. Last week was also a good time, decided Professor Yerkes. a reclusive observer, to brag about his 16 "dated chimpanzees." He calls them that because their "ancestry, date of birth and, with few exceptions, developmental history, experience, use in experiments, are matters of reliable record...
From Washington Senior Surgeon James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service raised a loud clamor against the infantile paralysis vaccines developed in Manhattan by Drs. William Hallock Park & Maurice Brodie, in Philadelphia by Dr. John Kolmer (TIME, July 16, 1934 et seq.). Twelve children who received one or the other of the vaccines last summer rapidly contracted the disease. Of the twelve, six died. Said Dr. Leake: "I feel that the fact we found fatalities makes it advisable that we warn the public and physicians...