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...against having to take care of thousands of Sudeten refugees, a good many of them Jews, rumbled into an anti-Semitic demonstration, Prague's first since Nazi annexation of the Czech territory. University students and young doctors milled about the famed square of Wenceslas, named for the Czech patron saint, and chanted "Down with the Jews," "Czechoslovakia for the Czechoslovaks." Cafés were invaded and many frightened Jewish patrons hustled into the streets before police dispersed the demonstrators...
Early in this century Sir William Osier, patron saint of modern medicine, discovered that nearly 53% of pneumonia fatalities occurred among drunkards. Two years ago young Dr. Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell of Johns Hopkins Hospital, stimulated by Osier's statistics, set out to learn the exact manner in which alcohol lowered resistance. Last week, after a score of different experiments on 175 rabbits, he reported in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin the first satisfactory explanation for this important pathological phenomenon...
...Cunard liner did not have its customary twelve pushers as it arrived off the Fiftieth Street pier in early morning sunlight. On its bridge stood Commodore Robert B. Irving who observed the state of the weather and declared it deal, then took out his gold medal of the patron saint of travelers. In his own words" "I looked at his kindly face and asked: 'Shall I do it?" and it seemed the saint smiled at me and replied: 'Carry on old man, and you'll do it,' and I did." Whereupon the Commodore proceeded to defy the longshoremen's strike...
Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
Abstract & Shiny. At the Greenwich Village A.C.A. Gallery of Herman Baron, patron of proletarians, an exhibition of work by eight young sculptors contained some of the best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure...